Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

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engamrramadan
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Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

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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
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seismosoft
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Re: Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

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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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shayan_safaei
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Re: Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

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Dear SeismoSoft support team
I have searched for the element deactivate feature in the software, and I can not find it. Will you please address the location of the related icons within the software.
BR
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Re: Progressive Collapse and blasting loads

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This can be determined by the activation and deactivation time (or LF) that can be defined for each element separately in the Element Connectivity module.
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