Curious if anybody has ever delved into automated stiffness modification with ETABS, particularly for highrise tower models.
Proposed automated workflow:
1) Set wall and header beams to uncracked.
2) Run model and extract results.
3) Determine what elements are cracked and calculate associated Ieff.
4) Re-run model with updated stiffness modifiers.
5) Repeat process until convergence.
This should be achievable with some in-house written code and ETABS OAPI. Obviously this would all need to happen with some degree of rationalisation to keep things practical.
Proposed automated workflow:
1) Set wall and header beams to uncracked.
2) Run model and extract results.
3) Determine what elements are cracked and calculate associated Ieff.
4) Re-run model with updated stiffness modifiers.
5) Repeat process until convergence.
This should be achievable with some in-house written code and ETABS OAPI. Obviously this would all need to happen with some degree of rationalisation to keep things practical.