Features

Features

Materials

• Standard Uniaxial Materials
  • Elastic
  • Elastic Perfectly Plastic
  • Elastic Perfectly Plastic with Gap
  • Viscous
  • Viscous Damper
  • Hyperbolic Gap
  • PySimple1
  • QzSimple1
  • TzSimple1
  • BondSP01
• Uniaxial Concrete Materials
  • Concrete01 (zero tensile strength)
  • Concrete02 (linear tension softening)
  • Concrete04 (Popovics)
  • Concrete06
  • ConcreteCM
• Uniaxial Steel Materials
  • Steel01
  • Steel02
  • Reinforcing Steel
  • Hysteretic
  • Ramberg-Osgood
• Multidimensional (nD) Materials
  • Elastic Isotropic
  • Elastic Orthotropic
  • J2Plasticity
  • Damage2p
  • PressureIndependMultiYield
  • PressureDependMultiYield
• Section Force-Deformation Materials
  • Elastic section
  • Fiber
  • Fiber Custom
  • FiberInt
  • LayeredShell
  • Plate Fiber
  • Elastic Membrane Plate
  • LayeredShell
• Combined Materials
  • Parallel
  • Series
  • Section Aggregator
  • Initial Strain
  • Initial Stress
  • MinMax

Elements

• ZeroLength Elements
• Truss Elements
  • Truss
    • compatible with Standard / Steel / Concrete uniaxial materials / Series / Parallel / InitStress / InitStrain
  • Corotational Truss
    • compatible with Standard / Steel / Concrete uniaxial materials / Series / Parallel / InitStress / InitStrain
• Beam-Column Elements
  • Elastic Beam-Column
    • compatible with nD Elastic Isotropic material
  • Elastic Timoshenko Beam-Column
    • compatible with nD Elastic Isotropic material
  • Force-Based Beam-Column
    • compatible with Elastic / Fiber / Section aggregator materials
  • Displacement-Based Beam-Column
    • compatible with Elastic / Fiber / Section aggregator materials
  • Flexure-Shear Interaction Displacement-Based Beam-Column
    • compatible with Fiberint material
• Surface Elements
  • Triangular (Tri31)
    • compatible with nD materials
  • Quadrilaterals (Quad & QuadUP)
    • compatible with nD materials
  • Shell (MITC4)
    • compatible with PlateFiber / ElasticMembranePlate materials
  • ShellDKGQ
    • compatible with PlateFiber / ElasticMembranePlate materials
• Solid Elements
  • Standard Brick Element (stdBrick)
    • compatible with nD materials

Restraints/Constraints

• Restraints
  • On single nodes
  • On line nodes
  • On surface nodes
• Constraints
  • Body constraints (equalDOF) on nodes
  • Body constraints (equalDOF) on line nodes
  • Rigid link constraints on nodes
  • Rigid link constraints on line nodes
  • Rigid diaphragm

Loads

• Forces
  • On single nodes
  • On line nodes
  • On surface nodes
  • Uniform forces on frame elements
• Displacements
  • On single nodes
• Ground motion
  • Ground motion from record on single nodes
  • Sine ground motion on single nodes

Mass

• Masses
  • On single nodes
  • On line nodes
  • On surface nodes

Damping

• Global Rayleigh damping
• Rayleigh damping on specific regions
  • Rayleigh damping on nodes
  • Rayleigh damping on elements

Analysis Types

• Eigenvalue
• Linear Static
• Nonlinear Static (Pushover)
  • Load control (monotonic)
  • Displacement control (monotonic / cyclic)
• Linear Transient
• Nonlinear Transient
  • Uniform ground motion excitation
  • Uniform sine excitation
  • Multi support ground motion excitation
  • Multi support sine excitation