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- Title
- ODSEWS-2D-II User's Manual. A Computer Program for Optimum Design of 2-Dimensional Steel Structures for Static, Seismic, and Wind Forces.
- File
- PB87163093.pdf
- Author(s)
- Cheng, F. Y.; Juang, D. S.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 1985, 139 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDY-85-11
- Abstract
- The report has been prepared as a user's manual for the computer program, ODSEWS-2D-II, for the optimal design of two-dimensional steel structures subjected to static, earthquake, and wind forces. The structural systems can be trusses, unbraced and braced frames. The dynamic forces may be two-dimensional seismic excitations at the base, time-dependent forces applied at the structural nodes, and wind forces acting on the structural surfaces. The seismic excitations include actual earthquake records, five groups of response spectra, and three seismic design code provisions of the Uniform Building Code, the Chinese Seismic Design Code, and ATC-3--06. The main features of the report include the description of the computer program, instructions for the data preparation, listing of the computer program, preparation of the job control language, sample examples, and a guide to modify the program's capacity.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Static loads; Steel structures; Wind loads; Frames; Bracing; Earthquake engineering; Computer programs; ODSEWS-2D-II computer program; Building codes