Hi Buggar.
I did not see your reply earlier because I had a problem with my account.
For example, SAP2000 documentation mentions that:
"Acceleration loads are used to simulate the ground motion of a time-history acceleration record. CSI software assumes complete fixity for all supports, then...
Hi to everyone,
I am struggling to understand the actual way the earthquake loads are applied to a FE model when either a commercial structural analysis software (like SAP2000, Abaqus or Ansys) or a FE code, like OpenSees, is used.
Especially, I am wondering if the earthquake loads (being in...