Hello,
my question regards fatigue of elastomeric bearings under cyclic load in compression and shear combined.The only comprehensive document I found regarding fatigue is the NCHRP report 298 (1987) and still they cannot make any statement for this loading situation. On the other hand their...
Hi everyone.
I am trying to simulate a friction/pendulum sliding isolator in ETABS.
I use the NLling and the "isolator2" property. I could not find any documentation nowhere on how to model the FPS in ETABS.
What I did was to create a frame element between the structure and the support and...