Recommended articlesArticles are listed as follows:
Troubleshooting
- General troubleshooting – Troubleshooting Checklist
Dynamic analysis
- Output accuracy – Time-history output-acceleration accuracy
- Ground motion at specific supports – Manual multi-support excitation
- Direct-integration time-history analysis – Damping of stiff elements with inelastic softening
- Modal time-history analysis – Fast Nonlinear Analysis (FNA)
Modeling
- Floor diaphragms – Flexible vs. rigid diaphragm effect on torsional stiffness of buildings, with supplementary investigation
- Optimizing structural configuration – /wiki/spaces/kb/pages/2005073
- Modal time-history analysis – Fast Nonlinear Analysis (FNA)Damping devices – Tuned-mass damper tutorial
- Efficient modeling techniques – Using the graphical user interface tutorial
Formulation
- Geometric nonlinearity – P-Delta effect
- Rigidity – Rigid behavior