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Hi ismailqeshta!... thanks a lot for the response. I've gone through those examples already but still was stuck at the problem. Meanwhile, I've found a solution. I've used one ElasticPPGap material and one Hysteretic material in series. After the gap, the combined stiffness of the two materials shou...

Hi, I have once developed a compression only multilinear material in OpenSees by just modifying the existing multilinear material. I can give you the source file (.cpp) and also the .dll file but don't know whether the .dll file will work on your system. I am using 64bit Windows 8.1. But once you ha...

HI !

Can anyone suggest me, how can I provide an initial gap in hysteretic material in OpenSees?

I'll highly appreciate any suggestion regarding that.

Thanks and Regards,
Swarup

Hello, You can save the matlab variables in a *.mat file, say it's a matrix (or array) myvar = (p1, p2, p3, p4, p5) and saved in 'myvar.mat'. From python you can then load this mat file from scipy.io import loadmat, savemat var = loadmat('myvar.mat') # 'var' will be a 'dict' {}, so extract your matr...

Hi, I am trying to use the ElasticPPGap material in OpenSees but getting error if I put any numerical value for the gap. If the gap is 0.0 the program is running perfectly. Following is my .tcl script. Please help. Thank you... wipe logFile viewlog model BasicBuilder -ndm 2 -ndf 3 set E0 3.35E+03 se...

Hi, Is there any option in Opensees so that I can input P-M interaction curve for Hinges. Actually I want to model a masonry column. But due to unavailability of axial shear interaction model I want to convert the shear forces to equivalent moment which will interact with the level of axial force pr...