8:00 -- 8:30 Welcome and Introduction to OpenSees
-- Gregory
L. Fenves
8:30 –
9:00 Introduction
to Tcl/Tk and OpenSees Commands
-- Frank McKenna
9:00 – 9:15 Getting ready to build the model:
Introduction to the user manual and input-file format
-- Silvia Mazzoni
9:15 – 10:00 Structural Model I (parameter definition; nodes; constraints;
materials; sections & elements; block & region; Geometric
Transformation)
-- Silvia Mazzoni
10:00 -- 10:15 Break
10:15 – 10:45 Structural Model II (Recorders; Loads)
-- Silvia Mazzoni
10:45 – 12:00 Geotechnical
Models
-- Boris Jeremic
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 –
1:45 Introduction
to Analysis Commands: system, integrator, algorithm, numberer, analysis,
analyze
--
Frank McKenna
1:45 --
2:30 When things go wrong: Modifying the script in the event
of non-convergence
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 4:30 Application to NEES project – user exercises structural and geotechnical models