Well, after some test, using differents shell elements, making dummy materials (very low mass, modify elesticity molulous...) seems that isn't and adecuate protocol to distibute surface loads to frames.
Any kind os shells introduces in the model restictions, and the displacements of the...
Hi all.
I have a questions about a new area element implemented in v10 of SAP2000. It's the "plane" element.
Appears in the drop list, when selects area sections.
Where is the differencce between the shell elements -and variants - and this new area element?
Tanks
Hi all.
I'm triying to test the capabilities of bucking analysis of SAP2000.
Taking the "bag examples", see EXAMPLE 1-019 - 1 and related, I goal to the results as in the examples, by program and by manual calculation. The next step is try to apply to "real" case the buking analysis.
I...
Hi everyone.
I have a problem with loads in SAP2000.
I need to apply snow, wind and dead loads over a curved glazed roof. It's diifcult to translate a surface load, for example the snow into a frame distributed load, as I do in 2D frames, a in a curved surface (weight/surface ==>...
