Hello all,

I am modeling a column in OpenSees using the Bond _SP01 (Strain Penetration) material to consider the slippage of the column footing. The program runs well, however, when I plot the column top displacement vs lateral force I get the exact Force-Displacement curve as the model without the Bond_SP and zero length section, while I think I should get more lateral displacement when using strain penetration material!

Does anyone know why the results of modeling w/ and w/o BondSP ZeroLengthSection are equal? Is there a point to this that I am missing?

Regards,

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