Is there a book about OpenSees?

hresquivelo · Post by **hresquivelo** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:01 pm

Hi Silvia.

Is there a book about OpenSees? I need one. What I want is to learn to use OpenSees to perfection!

Thanks in advance.

Post by **fmk** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:37 pm

no book. just the manual.

hresquivelo · Post by **hresquivelo** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:32 pm

Hi Frank.

It should be great if some of you (experts in OpenSees) could write a better manual. I mean, most of the information available in the manual is limited (by papers), so users who live outside the US will not have access to the missing information easily. The FEAP manual is a good example of a well-made manual.

http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~rlt/feap/manual.pdf
In that manual you find all the information you need for starting to use FEAP and understand how it "thinks". And that's exactly what the user's manual should have.

This is just an advice

. I understand that OpenSees is a new software framework and all of you are busy developing it, but consider this: you'll get more support by developers around world if you explain what you are made until now by making a step-by-step manual.

Thanks. I'll appreciate your comments.

hresquivelo · Post by **hresquivelo** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:12 pm

Sorry for the comment. I found useful information about the structure of OpenSees at:
http://opensees.berkeley.edu/OpenSees/d ... ev_doc.php

But unfortunately, the link Papers won't work.