Permanent drift

[andretsilva]

Hi,
I would like to know How can I obtain the permanent drift on Seismostruct? Is there a tool to find this drift?

Best Regard,
Andre Tenchini

[huffte]

Hi Andre.

I'm not certain to which type of analysis you are referring. But if it is time history analysis, then you should be able to plot your structural displacements in the post-processor and see the displacement values at the end of each loading stage. This would give a good estimation of permanent drift, or residual displacement.

I hope this helps a bit.