Seismosoft | Earthquake Engineering Solutions

Hi,
I'm just beginning with modelling and I haven't found a way to modelize just a single column. With "wizard", I should be able to modelize it by a 2D-frame with 1 storey and 0 bay, but we can't do that. And then I can't apply an incremented load ( direction x) and a permanent load (direction z) on the top of the column, in order to run the pushover analysis.
Would you have an idea?

Thank you!
Regards.

Hi,

What you describe (impossibility of simultaneously applying incremental and permanent loads) seems unusual; no such problems have ever been reported. Please do check your model carefully.

You can use the wizard to create a one-bay single-storey portal, and then through the removal of one of the columns and of the beam, you end up with the single column model that you wish.

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