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I am not familiar with the particular section of EC8 to which you refer. But I assume it is applicable to an elastic analysis, perhaps elastic response spectrum analysis. If this is the case, I believe you will have to do this manually. SeismoStruct is general purpose and not, I believe, coded to an...

While this question is completely outside the realm of the intent of this forum (questions regarding SeismoSoft and its software), I'll suggest you start with the following: https://www.buffalo.edu/mceer/catalog.host.html/content/shared/www/mceer/publications/MCEER-12-0005.detail.html I hope it helps.

I wonder if the general hysteretic model might work? Just a thought worth looking into.

I am afraid I do not understand what you mean by "overall results". And it is not clear what you mean by "regulation checks". If you mean exceedance of strain limits, chord rotations, etc . . defined in the Performance Criteria tab of the pre-processor, then you can specify that ...

In the Post-Processor, all plots have the option of explicitly showing the maxima and minima for the parameter being plotted. Simply check the "Max" and "Min." boxes and the numerical values will be added to the plot. Or, if you want to do your own custom plotting and analysis of...

The results of a dynamic response history analysis are, indeed, the results at each time step. Certainly, if you are interested in the maxima and minima, you may obtain those from SeismoStruct results. It is up to the engineer to decide what is important based on the intent of the analysis. Also, it...

Just a note of clarification, rhtcr7. SeismoMatch does indeed incorporate spectral matching in the time domain. Wavelets are added directly to the input accelerogram. There is no manipulation of the Fourier spectrum in SeismoMatch. SeismoArtif, on the other hand, incorporates spectral matching in th...

It is simply a warning that the output file is going to be extremely large, almost 1GB, if you continue. Provided you have ample available space, there would be no problem with proceeding. Alternatively, and to save space, you could reduce the output selectively.

Well, it is not clear what you hope to accomplish. This will be a decision you have to make, depending on the purpose of your study. If you want to match a single accelerogram to a target spectrum, then I don't understand why you are using 15 accelerograms to begin with. A commonly encountered goal ...

If you simply want to do a response spectrum analysis in SeismoStruct, you can manually define the mean spectrum desired. If you want to do a response history analysis in SeismoStruct, you need to save the matched versions of the accelerograms. You can define the 15 time history curves in the Seismo...