Friction

05-Future developments & requests
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dti
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Friction

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Hello,
I am modeling a joint in precast concrete shear walls. I have to use several link elements in order to obtain corect joint behavior. The problem is that joint's shear capacity depends on the applied vertical load - or the presence of friction is critical in that joints.
What are your plans in making link element for simple friction - dependend directions of link element?
Can I model the friction in any way in the current version of Seismostruct.
Best regards, Radoslav Orlinov, UACEG - Sofia
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seismosoft
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Re: Friction

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Dear Radoslav Orlinov,

A link element with coupled degrees-of-freedom does feature in our future implementations list, but current resources do not allow its introduction in the immediate future, most regrettably.

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