Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

[engamrramadan offline]

Dear SEISMOSOFT Team
can i model a progressive collapse of reinforced concrete structures " Remove a columns in nonlinear dynamic behavior " using Seismostruc?
Also,
can i model a blasting load time history using Seismostruc?
thank you

[seismosoft offline]

Yes you can model a progressive collapse by using the element deactivate feature in non-linear time-history analysis.
Similarly, you can model a blast loading in non-linear time-history analysis, by applying a time-dependent load for a small amout of time at the beginning.

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