Chapter 4 EXAMPLE 3 - Portal Frame Examples 30

For the two nodes, displacements and loads are given. For the beam-column elements, the
element end forces in the local system are provided.

The nodeGravity.out file contains ten lines, each line containing 7 entries. The first entry is time
in the domain at end of the load step. The next 3 entries are the displacements at node 3, and
the final 3 entries the displacements at node 4.

Example 3.2
In this example the nonlinear reinforced concrete portal frame which has undergone the gravity
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Files Required
 Example3.2.tcl (http://peer.berkeley.edu/~silvia/OpenSees/TCLfiles/Example3.2.tcl)
 Example3.1.tcl (http://peer.berkeley.edu/~silvia/OpenSees/TCLfiles/Example3.1.tcl)

Model
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Output Specification
For this analysis the nodal displacements at nodes 3 and 4 will be stored in the file
nodePushover.out for post-processing. In addition, the end forces in the local coordinate system
for elements 1 and 2 will be stored in the file elePushover.out. At the end of the analysis, the
state of node 3 is printed to the screen.

OpenSees Script
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