Years ago, one of those shows like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives featured a greasy spoon somewhere in middle America famous for its eggs and fried chicken meal known as the “Coming and Going”–the boundary conditions of a chicken’s life on a single plate. This quarter in Eastchester, I am teaching the introductory undergraduate course in structural analysis and the … Continue reading OpenSees Coming and Going
Tag: Influence lines
Moving and Influential
OpenSees is probably not the first, or second, software you think of when you need to generate influence lines or perform moving load analysis, e.g., across bridge girders. However, Tcl and Python scripting capabilities make OpenSees ideal for this type of analysis. To keep things to the point, I'll show an influence line analysis for … Continue reading Moving and Influential
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