Five Tweets from the Bot

The OpenSees Twitter bot is almost two years old. The bot has 356 followers, compared to 200 followers a year ago. Impressive OpenSees work continues to be tweeted. Here are five of the most recent tweets gleaned by @OpenSeesTweets. https://twitter.com/NHE_SimCenter/status/1460763867047501831 https://twitter.com/ccaprani/status/1459045946159812608 https://twitter.com/mikusscott/status/1451608792135651330 https://twitter.com/SilviaMazzoni_/status/1450195727783641088 https://twitter.com/6icees2021/status/1447127835261480960

OpenSeesBf

OpenSees started with Tcl and is now riding the wave of Python's popularity. But, it's not too soon to ask which language the next OpenSees interpreter will use. In my opinion, Julia is the front runner. However, I would like to put a bid in for Brainf*ck, an esoteric programming language shown to me a … Continue reading OpenSeesBf →

Every OpenSees Tutorial

There's plenty of excellent OpenSees tutorials online. But some other OpenSees tutorials feel like this sardonic, mock programming tutorial. When you watch the video, replace "outdated library" with "OpenSees", "Java" with "Tcl", and "Minecraft" with "incremental dynamic analyses for a portfolio of 3D reinforced concrete frames". https://youtu.be/MAlSjtxy5ak Pretty accurate, right? Let me know in the … Continue reading Every OpenSees Tutorial →

A Blog in Motion

It has been two years since the blog's first post, which was neither interesting nor informative. Since then, the blog has become unstoppable. Not unstoppable in the Michael Jordan in the NBA Playoffs kind of way, but in the sense that momentum makes it difficult to stop posting. Until that time comes, here are summary … Continue reading A Blog in Motion →

Non-Fungible OpenSees

The latest spam to creep into the OpenSees universe has come from digital artists looking to sell their NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to members of the OpenSees Facebook group. The art is sold through the NFT marketplace, opensea.io, so I can see the confusion with OpenSees. Before the group admins remove the NFT posts, I ask … Continue reading Non-Fungible OpenSees →

RBOC for the Fall

I am teaching graduate level Structural Mechanics at Eastchester for the first time this fall. I will use the Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics book by Keith Hjelmstad. Expect some posts on how to use OpenSees to solve structural mechanics problems for beams, plates, shells, etc. I will do NaBloPoMo again this November. Writing a post … Continue reading RBOC for the Fall →

Building Blocks

I gave a presentation last week for the 6th International Short Course on Seismic Analysis of Structures, hosted remotely and on-site at the University of Palermo, Italy, organized by Prof. Giovanni Minafo and Prof. Cristoforo Demartino. As you can see in the video, my presentation re-packaged leveraged several blog posts. https://youtu.be/p4tgafYuk74 Not every slide was … Continue reading Building Blocks →

Random Bullets on Blogging

It's 2021. So, why blog when peak blogging was like 2007? Here are some random bullets on why blogging works for me. The more you write, the more ideas you generate. Usually it's ideas for more blog posts, but sometimes it's new ideas for research.Blog posts have a direct, conversational tone. Like I'm talking with … Continue reading Random Bullets on Blogging →

Go Cite Yourself

Metric-driven academia, with its focus on h-indices and impact factors, has led to shady behaviors like citation cartels and publication bounties. Superfluous self-citations are also shady, but a few self-citations are natural when developing a line of research. So, go ahead and post a selfie. https://twitter.com/mikusscott/status/975382276434378752 Think of the baristas at your local coffee shop. … Continue reading Go Cite Yourself →