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Setting Description
• Use prOVlded value
• Statlc procedu ICIs g1venIn5entence 4.1.73(5)
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= 0.2
OpenTerralnC: . } > 0.9
. 0.3
RoughTerraln:C e ={ J >0.1
Interm iate value betw ntheseo r\S (see Commen ryl.pg.l

η. Thisme lod is not implement {n this case.the user needs10

calω1 ally and entet" }
namic procedu :e xposuret.a ctor Iculat a5 follows (4.1.8}:
. o.zs
Exp A:C. = [I and 1.0 !l:Ce S2.S
0.50
Exp B: 0.5 1 :tJ and0.5 S c"s 2.5
Ref. γIngto F A-4.1.7.8 (2) and(.Exposu A Is regarded as open
temlln and E:xposure B as rough rraln.These definltlon5 are used In the
c:urrent Implemenfor dynamlc proc; du .

Refer ce
Vel city Theref. nc lodty pressure15 refe nc:ed In Sentencef 5ectlon 4.1.7 and thls
I5ressure.q parame rfs pected to be provIded by the user. Ac;c'ψtab unltsa
1m2 (kPa)
rkgl m2.

ene.:lte M FrmeuItzes a nonllnear analysls am to keep track of tenslon

AdditionalLoad
Casesfor
w member durlng 5OIuUon of the struωralm elunder applled
loads.51nωthe process has a nonllnear(lter nature anaIs results can
Analysìs wìth not be slmply
Tension-Only superp ed wlth other results asIn load comblnatlon optlonIn RAM
Members Frame.Therefor ch later Iloadωse(' nd or selsmlc) a solved separate
Slnce e dlrectJon of the later loads beωme Important Inan eratlveanaf s.RAM
Frame pro des anoptlon uch at addltlonalload cases can be 0'1ωted upon
user request.WhenGenerate AddìtìonalLoad Cases for Analysìs wìth Tension.only
Members in generatinglateralloadωsesindand seismic loadωses only)is
invokeaddditionalload cases are created. For instance.ltlere are 12 loadcases
generated (or a regular IBC20 (ASCE 7.98) Wlnd loadωse.If thls bo Is
checketdhe number ofthe load cases becomes 22.Additionalloadcases are
created to acωunt for directionalel!ct5 ofapplied loads 50 1hat the most 5 e
loadingcase is
captur .

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.<'dditional Load
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Cases

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