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SAP2000 Buckling, P-delta, P-delta+ large different results

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TLycan

Structural
Aug 24, 2012
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Dear all,
I have the following problem. I am trying to find the buckling load for the beam in attached SAP file. The following are the strange results I’ve got:
Eigen Value buckling (buckling analysis) = 39X1 tons
P-Delta Non-linear analysis = 9 tons
P-Delta + large displacement Non-linear analysis = 72 tons
Though I know that the buckling load is near the 39 tons , the more important question why is there so much difference between the difference analyses, and even more important why is there a difference between P-delta and P-Delta + large displacement

Note: the file may take a bit while running also refer to the plot function of joint 393
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=a41687b8-8ce9-4d05-b29f-6752808670ea&file=single_rafter_CALTB-1.SDB
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