shear deformation component

[nimish07]

Dear all,

I have a problem of having a shear wall, where i'm told to find the strains due to shear component at its base, when subjected to a time history.

If i am using an inelastic Force based element to model the walls, could there be a way of only separating the shear deformations?

Does the inelastic force based element have a shear deformation component in its formulation?

[fbianchi]

Dear Nimish,
the distributed inelasticity elements which are currently available in SeismoStruct do not model/compute shear deformation/strength.
Federica

[kalianis]

Do you plan to include this feature in the next version? If yes, it will be calculated using the formula included in EC8 pt3?

[Stelios_Antoniou]

Unfortunately, the estimation of shear deformation&strength will not be included in the next SeismoStruct version

Seismosoft Developer