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Hi,

I am starting to use seismostruct to design curvature bridge with rubber bearing. From physical test and fea, I can get properties such as vertical stiffness, horizontal stiffness and equivalent damping. How to applied these properties in seismostruct if i used link element?



If I applied;

F1 - vertical stiffnesss-lin_sym

F2 - hoizontal stiffness- lin_sym

f3 - horizontal stiffness- lin_sym


is it correct? or is there any better way?


Thanks

Please refer to the files of the verification report that are included in the installation. There you will find several examples of link elements
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