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Grateful if you let me know if we can have some important information such as:

1. Distributioan of hysteretic energy along the hight of frame

2. Hysteretic time history in each element and story

3. Energy dissipated capacity and demand in each Element and Story

4. Damage index like Park-Ang or others?

5. Energy ductility or displacement

This is not really a query related to SeismoStruct, but rather to Earthquake Engineering in general, something that should be avoided in this Forum, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, there are plenty of textbooks (e.g. Park and Paulay or Paulay and Priestley) from where you may obtain feedback on the topics above. Alternatively, you may wish to follow specialised courses or postgraduates programmes, such as those provided by the ROSE School in Italy.

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Thank you for the reply!

But I did not mean to introduce me some text book for studying. I ask if Seismostructh has the capability to calculate the mentioned parameters or not?

I alook forward to hear from you,

Regards

1) yes, of course, directly from the Post-Processor (read the Help System)
2) yes, of course, directly from the Post-Processor (read the Help System)
3) yes, of course, directly from the Post-Processor (read the Help System)
4) yes, of course, by results post-processing outside SeismoStruct
5) yes, of course, by results post-processing outside SeismoStruct

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Hi,

I couldn't find how to get "Energy dissipated capacity and demand in each Element and Story" in the Help System. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards

One more question, is it possible to obtain the input energy directly from the Post-Processor?

Thank you once again.

Energy = Force x Displacement

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Yes, we can get the hysteretic energy from the hysteretic curve, but how about the damping energy (Ed)? I would like to compare the input energy (Ei) to the hysteretic energy (Eh) :
Ei = Ek + Es + Eh + Ed
where Ek = kinetic energy and Es = strain energy

Thank you very much in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

Yes, damping force values are provided in the postprocessor module.

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