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Actually there is a topic in this forum created by RICHARD named "truss output forces and displacements" where similar problems are reported.<br/>
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I am also having problems with truss elements right now. In pushover analyses, braces in compression are recovering its elastic ...

Ok, thank you very much.

Thank you very much João!

I had already read that publication of Priestley & Grant too, which is clear about the best option, although as stated in the Help System, there is no consensus. Thank you very much for the confirmation. As always, your help has been very important.

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I've read the Help System and some texts suggested there about damping (Clough-Penzien and Hall) and I've looked at some related topics in this forum, but I'm still a bit confused. For a 3-storey R/C building, what's the best way of considering viscous damping? I'm thinking of ...

<t>Hi,<br/>
In the help system it is referred that "as discussed by Prota et al. [2009], with the correct calibration" the Monti-Nuti model can be employed for smooth rebars, which is my case.<br/>
The authors concluded that the model yields good results for L/D<8. This is a quite recent article ...

Ok, I don't intend to rush you, better later but good... Just needed to know in order to schedule my work.

Thank you

<t>I had a hard time trying to find the "isotropic hardening rules" of Filippou et al. [1983] employed in steel models, until I noticed that the article in the Bibliography of SeismoStruct is not the right one. The year and the authors are the same but the useful one is named "Effects of bond ...

Hi,

Is it inadvisable to use infrmDB and infrmFB in the same model? I was thinking I could use infrmFB for columns and infrmDB for beams where reinforcement patterns change. I'm not sure if mixing these two types of elements will create convergence problems.

<t>Hi,<br/>
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I had noticed this same problem in static pushover analysis, but as Richard said, in the interface for truss elements, results for forces and displacements seemed reasonable so there wasn't really a problem. <br/>
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However, I'm now performing dynamic analysis in the same model ...