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truss as elastic material?

Posted: 12 May 2016, 11:21
by gemini
hi

Can I make truss element as an elastic material??
There is no elastic truss element in the program.

So to do this, I used elastic frame element and then assigned moment releases so it should not take moment load. (I did this in SAP)
But after running the analysis , the elastic frame element takes moment and shear values as well..

Is there any other option?? or Can you please highlight my mistake??

Thankyou

Regards,
geminie

Re: truss as elastic material?

Posted: 12 May 2016, 13:38
by seismosoft
Have you used a force-based convergence criterion? If not please re-run the analysis with more stringent criteria.

Regards,
Seismosoft Support