Shear Story

[warcorsario]

Dear Seismostruct

Generally in some scientific papers they present the graphs of story shear vs story level, how can I obtain those graphs and / or data in seismostruct?

[seismosoft]

In SeismoStruct the storey shear can be extracted by reading the shear forces of each individual column of that storey. In order to facilitate this function, it is a good strategy to create groups of elements, i.e. one group with all the columns of each storey. This will facilitate the selection of the members in the post-processor.
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[warcorsario]

Thanks for your answer, the suggested procedure is quite logical, but how would i get the shear story if i have infill wall on the model?

[seismosoft]

With the same logic, however you need to analyse the diagonal strut internal force of the infills and get the projection to the horizontal direction.
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[warcorsario]

Very thanks for your answer, the procedure is laborious if you have many wall infill of different sizes