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Hi, I am new to Seismostruct. I am trying to model a rectangualr reinforced concrete wall. The wall section I have is not symmetric ( the boundary elements at the edges have diffenrent lengths,different confinements and also have diffrent amount of longitudinal steel).
So, is there anyway i can model that using this software. The rectangualr wall section in the software seems to be able to model the symmetric sections only.

please advise.

Thnak you.

Hi. Unfortunately, at the present moment there is no unsymmetric wall section available (we are currently working hard on rendering the sections module more versatile, but there's still much to be done). The best you can achieve with the current version of the program is to model the non-symmetric distribution of longitudinal re-bars through the employment of a rectangular beam section (adequately rotated, of course). Evidently, this will not allow you to assign varying section confinement, hence it would work well only if the latter would not be playing a major role in your particular case study.

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