SAP2000

Integrated
Finite Elements Analysis
and
Design of Structures
DETAILED TUTORIAL INCLUDING
PUSHOVER ANALYSIS

Computers and Structures, Inc.

Berkeley, California, USA

Version 6.20 Beta

June 1998

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Table Of Contents

A. Introduction.....................................................................................................................................1
B. Description of Building Model......................................................................................................3
C. Tutorial Part 1 - Creating, Analyzing and Designing the Basic Model ..................................9
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Setting up the model geometry starting from a template........................................................9

Setting up the model geometry starting from scratch, including restraints..........................21
Relabeling joint, frame and shell elements ...........................................................................33
Defining material properties ...................................................................................................35
Defining frame sections..........................................................................................................37
Defining shell sections............................................................................................................41
Assigning groups ....................................................................................................................43
Assigning frame sections .......................................................................................................51
Assigning shell sections .........................................................................................................57
Assigning frame end releases................................................................................................59
Defining static load cases.......................................................................................................63
Assigning frame static loads ..................................................................................................65
Assigning shell static loads ....................................................................................................75
Assigning joint static loads .....................................................................................................77
Assigning joint masses...........................................................................................................83
Assigning diaphragm constraints...........................................................................................87
Static and dynamic analysis (not pushover) .........................................................................89
Reviewing mode shapes ........................................................................................................93
Reviewing deformed shapes..................................................................................................95