ETABS Tutorial

12. Click the Display Member Force Diagram button, , on

the top toolbar to open the Member Force Diagram for
Frames form.

13. Note that when a 2-D view is active, the option to select In-
plane Moment is available under Component. Select it and
click OK to close the form.

14. This displays the resultant bending-moment vector (major

plus minor moment), projected onto the viewing plane. All
bending moment is acting about the axis normal to the
viewing plane. See the figure above.

15. Click the Perspective Toggle button, , again. Because

the in-plane moment is invalid in 3-D, the view reverts to
showing the undeformed shape.

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