I am working at the site of an 8-story steel structure (moment resisting frame). The structure is located in a highly active seismic zone in CA. The construction of the mat foundation has been finished. The base plates have been placed and leveled and now they want to install the columns of the...
One of my friend at school told me that if someone has Ph.D. he/she deos not need to take the FE exam. She said this is a new policy by NCEES. I could not find anything about this on the oficial website for FE.
Has anyone heard about this?
Is Nonlinear SAP200 (v.8 2004) a good software for doing nonlinear push-over analysis for RC moment frame bldgs?
I know that this version has the capability of doing this analysis. Is there anybody out there who has done this analysis with SAP and is there any suggestion/encountered difficulty...
Is Nonlinear SAP200 (v.8 2004) a good software for doing nonlinear push-over analysis for RC moment frame bldgs?
I know that this version has the capability of doing this analysis. Is there anybody out there who has done this analysis with SAP and is there any suggestion/encountered difficulty...
I have the results of a beam FEM. I know that by using Hermition polynomials (shape functions) and having the nodal displacements, I can find the displacements anywhere along the beam by interpolation. I guess if I derive the cubic shape functions once (Hermit functions) and multiply them by the...
