First-order analysis – analysis based on first-order deformations in which equilibrium conditions

are formulated on the undeformed structure.

First-order (linear static) analysis

In first-order (linear static) analysis, the stiffness of the structure is assumed to be constant and
unaffected by changes in the geometry of the structure when it is loaded.

The moment at the column base can be calculated as follows:

First order analysis is a method of structural analysis that doesn't consider the deformed
shape of the structure to arrive at the internal actions of the structure.

So the structural analysis carried through the common methods like moment distribution,
slope deflection or stiffness methods are all first order methods since they don't iterate the
calculations on the deformed shape again and again till convergence .

But analysis methods or analysis like p-delta method go through the deformed shape of the
structure to arrive at the internal actions of the element and hence they are called second
order methods.

And note that first order analysis is Carried out for the whole frame not the column only.

In first-order analysis the stiffness of the structure is assumed to be constant and unaffected by changes in the
geometry of the structure when it is loaded. This is the standard assumption of linear-elastic first-order analysis.
The principle of superposition applies to this approach. Where the analysis model remains the same, the results from
analyses of different sets of applied actions can be added together and the results of individual design situations can
be scaled. The analysis results are proportional to the applied actions.