How to get the absolute(total) acceleration during Uniform Excitation

[vike]

Hello,

I'm trying to generate the total accel. of a node with the pattern of UniformExcitation. The command I put is

recorder Node -file $Path/Accel_Node1.out -node 1 -dof 2 accel;

That is, the OpenSEES record the relative accel. of node 1 in the 2nd DOF.

However, how can we get the total accel. of a node through UniformExcitation without any post-processing?

Best regards,

[selimgunay]

You can do it like this

recorder Node -file $Path/Accel_Node1.out -timeSeries 1 -time -node 1 -dof 2 accel;

Here 1 in the timeSeries is the tag of the acceleration time series that you use in the uniform excitation.