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Dear all,

I have a problem of having a shear wall, where i'm told to find the strains due to shear component at its base, when subjected to a time history.

If i am using an inelastic Force based element to model the walls, could there be a way of only separating the shear deformations?

Does the inelastic force based element have a shear deformation component in its formulation?

Dear Nimish,
the distributed inelasticity elements which are currently available in SeismoStruct do not model/compute shear deformation/strength.
Federica

Do you plan to include this feature in the next version? If yes, it will be calculated using the formula included in EC8 pt3?

Unfortunately, the estimation of shear deformation&strength will not be included in the next SeismoStruct version

Seismosoft Developer