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- Title
- General Purpose Program for Inelastic Analysis of RC and Steel Building Systems for 3D Static and Dynamic Loads and Seismic Excitations (Based on Supercomputer and PC). INRESB-3D-SUPII. User's Manual.
- File
- PB97123624.pdf
- Author(s)
- Cheng, F. Y.; Ger, J. F.; Li, D.; Yang, J. S.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., August 1996, 258 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- STRUCTURAL SER-96-3
- Abstract
- The report was prepared as a user's guide to the computer program INRESB-3D-SUPII for analyzing elastic and inelastic building systems subject to static loading, multi-component earthquake motion, and pseudo-static cyclic loading. Additionally, the program is capable of calculating inelastic post-buckling behavior of steel members and systems, natural frequency, and response spectrum. A joint-based system is used to define the geometry of a structure. Structural members may be elastic 3D prismatic beams, nonlinear reinforced concrete shear walls, nonlinear springs, inelastic 3-D-beam-column elements, finite-segment elements, and nonlinear bracing elements.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; FORTRAN; Damping; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Dynamic structural analysis; Hysteresis; Cyclic loads; Supercomputers; User manuals (Computer programs)