Recommended Articles

Recommended Articles are listed as follows:

Troubleshooting

• General troubleshooting – Troubleshooting Checklist

Dynamic analysis

• Output accuracy – Time-history output-acceleration accuracy

• Ground motion at specific supports – Manual multi-support excitation

• Direct-integration time-history analysis – Damping of stiff elements with inelastic softening

• Modal time-history analysis – Fast Nonlinear Analysis (FNA)

Modeling

• Floor diaphragms – Flexible vs. rigid diaphragm effect on torsional stiffness of buildings, with supplementary investigation

• Damping devices – Tuned-mass damper tutorial

• Efficient modeling techniques – Using the graphical user interface tutorial

Formulation

• Geometric nonlinearity – P-Delta effect

• Rigidity – Rigid behavior