bridge with rubber bearing

[hexa]

Hi,

I am starting to use seismostruct to design curvature bridge with rubber bearing. From physical test and fea, I can get properties such as vertical stiffness, horizontal stiffness and equivalent damping. How to applied these properties in seismostruct if i used link element?



If I applied;

F1 - vertical stiffnesss-lin_sym

F2 - hoizontal stiffness- lin_sym

f3 - horizontal stiffness- lin_sym


is it correct? or is there any better way?


Thanks

[seismosoft]

Please refer to the files of the verification report that are included in the installation. There you will find several examples of link elements
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