Getting Started

• GettingStarted Manual
  • Introduction
  • Download OpenSees
  • Run OpenSees
  • Problem Definition
  • Model Builder
  • Nodes
  • Elements
  • Recorders
  • Summary of Model-Building Input File
  • Loads and Analysis
  • Gravity Loads
  • Summary of Gravity Loads
  • Lateral Loads -- Static Pushover
  • Lateral Loads -- Cyclic Lateral Load
  • Lateral Loads -- Dynamic ground motion

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by Silvia Mazzoni, Frank McKenna, Gregory L. Fenves

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center University of California, Berkeley

The original documentation and validation examples of the Getting Started with OpenSees Manual were supported by NEESgrid subcontract award 04-344 from the NEESgrid System Integrator (SI) under NSF grant CMS-0117853

• Introduction
• Download OpenSees
• Run OpenSees
• Problem Definition
• Model Builder
• Nodes
• Elements
• Recorders
• Summary of Model-Building Input File
• Loads and Analysis
• Gravity Loads
• Summary of Gravity Loads
• Lateral Loads -- Static Pushover
• Lateral Loads -- Cyclic Lateral Load
• Lateral Loads -- Dynamic ground motion