Seismosoft | Earthquake Engineering Solutions

I am running dozens of simple models using links to represent seismic isolation devices. I can find no way to pin-point the maxima and minima of the link displacements and forces.

The hysteretic curves look fantastic in the output and will be immediately useable with a little adjustment (adding titles, etc. .). I can get in the ball park for forces and displacements by simply looking at the graphics. For reporting purposes, however, I will likely need 3 significant figures.

It would be of great value to have maximum and minimum link forces and displacements reported directly to the screen above the graphics somewhere on the "Link Hysteretic Curves" tab of the post-processor. There are other tabs where similar results would prove exrtremely valuable. For example, on the "Deformed Shape Viewer" it would be handy to have output to the screen of something like:
The maximum displacement is xx.xx inches at t = yy.yy seconds
The minimum displacement is uu.uu inches at t = vv.vv seconds

I forgot to mention that I realize that there is a way to get the information I need.

I can go to "Plot Options" -> "Data" and copy the data onto the clipboard. Then I paste it into Excel and find the maxima/minima using Excel functions.

When running dozens of models, it would save a huge amount of time if these results were immediately available on the SeismoStruct post-processor.

Thank you very much.

Dear huffte,

Many thanks for the suggestion, which we will certainly be keeping in mind.

Seismosoft Support