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Quake load in SAP 2000 and ETABS analysed twice ?
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No. It doesn't have anythig to do with the quake going in 2 oposite directions. When i wrote twice, i ment in 2 steps, and that aplies only to quake loads. I was wondering if the quake load is triangular distribution of accelerations, why is it analysed in 2 DISTINCT steps? Even more, in a nonlinear analysis what is the relation between the first step and the second, because some times only the first step converges.
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