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Getting Started with OpenSees

Under the NEESgrid support, a Getting Started with OpenSees document has been produced.

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Technical Report NEESgrid-TR 2004-21

www.neesgrid.org

Getting Started with OpenSees

Silvia Mazzoni, Frank McKenna, Gregory L. Fenves

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

University of California, Berkeley

OpenSees version 1.6.0

please send questions and comments about the manual to silvia@peer.berkeley.edu

The 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

In This Chapter

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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