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<t>Hello,<br/>
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in the case of "user defined spectrum" in the spectral amplification of an adaptive pushover, is it somewhere clarified whether the spectrum that I insert is in terms of accelerations or displacements? Because the graph writes, by default, displacements, but I'm not sure where ...

Thank you very much and excuse-me again for being tiring, but I wanted to be absoluteley sure that I have correctly understood. Thank you again for all your help!

<t>Thank you for the prompt response and for the article's name that you sent me. I tried to read it,especially the part of ductile mechanisms. I have three very important questions upon how Sesimostructs works, according to all the above :<br/>
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1)Seismostruct automatically computes for chord ...

Excuse-me, the chord rotations mentioned as performance criteria, refer only to the plastic part of the rotation, or the rotation as a whole, with the yielding part? I'm asking that because FEMA-356 and ATC-40 give acceptance criteria as plastic rotations.

<t>After a certain number of steps,and even though I get results of the adaptive pushover analysis, there is a message in the Deformed Shape viewer,where Eigen solutions were supposed to appear, "No converged Eigenvalues". Does this mean that the shape of the incremental loads is kept constant, as ...

<t>Hello!<br/>
The displacement-based adaptive pushover analysis, described by [Antoniou and Pinho, 2004b] does not correspond to adaptive pushover, type of scaling: displacement-based scaling, applied loading : constant pattern of displacement AND adaptive response control, so as to include a ...

<t>Hello!<br/>
I'm interested in including infill panel elements for infill massonry to my model. I find out that one of the parameters is the specific weight (default value 10kN/m3) of the masonry, in order to define the self weight of the infill panel. However, I have already included its self ...

<t>Hello!<br/>
I run a static pushover analysis for a five-story building. In order to check the results I tried to calculate the sum of V3(A) of the first element for all the 20 columns of my building and compare it with the base shear results that the program provides in the global response ...

Thank you so much for the help, it is really usefull for my dissertation!

<t>Hello again!<br/>
I have an unexpected problem which has to do again with the discretization. I run static pushover analyses for absolutely the same building but with different number of elements at the columns, and I get the forthcoming results: For columns with 1 element, the displacement ...