Good morning,
I am Interesting in finding out the stages at which hinging at beam ends and column hinging at top and bottom occurs under IDA. For which I have set reinforcement yielding as limit in performance criteria. In Analysis output I can see the stages at which a particular performance criteria has reached along with the name of a member ( Reinforcement_Yielding reached. Elm: C1. Reinf. Steel Strain = 0.00277844 - Sec(a)). Is there any way to find out in which particular zone of a member the performance criteria has reached ( where in C1) ? Unfortunately due to size of file I had uncheck some of the nodes and I cannot view them in deformed shaped viewer. In a nutshell what does "sec(a)" refer to in analysis output ?
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Usama Ali
Performance criteria capability
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Re: Performance criteria capability
Sec(a) in the log means that it is the first (i.e. closer to node 1 of the element) integration section of the member. Similarly, sec(b), sec(c) etc. are the other integration sections.
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