Review of new building design

[imadD]

Hello,
Please show the needed steps/procedure to review/check an existing design against Displacement based design using Seismostruct.
Thank you

[seismosoft]

This is not really a SeismoStruct-related query, but rather a question on earthquake engineering.

In any case, we suggest you to read the literature on this topic, including, for instance, the book on Displacement-based Design authored by Priestley, Calvi and Kowalsky.

Seismosoft Support

[imadD]

SeismoStruct can be used to check on gravity loads?

[huffte]

SeismoStruct can and has been used to accurately estimate inelastic response of structures to dynamic loading, including lateral response to base-applied acceleration time history, nodal-applied displacement time history, incremental dynamic analysis, adaptive pushover analysis, etc.

SeismoStruct is not limited to gravity load only.