about nonlinearbeamcolumn element

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fangming
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about nonlinearbeamcolumn element

Post by fangming » Wed May 20, 2015 9:03 pm

Dear professor fmk,

I try to realize an algorithm by modifying the source code of OpenSEES. And when I check the element library, there is no .h file or .cpp file about nonlinearbeamcolumn element. I also generate the doxygen file of the whole codes, finding that no nonlinearbeamcolumn element exits. So my questions are below:

1, has this element been erased from the source code ? if yes, what's the reason ?

2, if I want to use this kind of element, where can I find another one instead ?

PS: my source codes is from svn co svn://opensees.berkeley.edu/usr/local/svn/OpenSees/trunk OpenSees 5528
and makefile is /MAKES/Makefile.def.EC2-UBUNTU ./Makefile.def

Thanks very much.

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Re: about nonlinearbeamcolumn element

Post by fmk » Fri May 22, 2015 9:28 am

The "nonlinearBeamColumn" element is and always has been the force beam column element. It was a badly chosen name for an argument in the element command that has since been fixed, aka changed to forceBeamColumn .. though for backward compatability it is still there.

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