Rakan Alalwan

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How to install rubber isolator in the 7th strorey in SAP2000?

Hi, How to install the rubber or friction isolator in the 7th storey in SAP2000?

04 February 2021 8,603 4 View

How to convert acceleration plot to displacement plot?

Hi, I have acceleration data from Arduino with DXL335 accelerometer and I want to get the displacement plot. How can I do that? Kind Regards

19 January 2021 2,693 3 View

How to measure displacement and period of scaled structure in the lab?

Hello, I want to measure the displacement and period of a 3D building structure that I have constructed in the lab. How can I measure there parameters? What equipment I need? From where I can get...

11 January 2021 9,710 1 View

How to display displacement time history in table (SAP2000) ?

Hi, I want to export displacement time history to Excel. In SAP2000 they just give me the graph dirctly, I want the initial data Thanks Rakan

19 March 2019 8,015 1 View

What is the load combination for Dead, Live and seismic load based on American codes?

I got confused between these two load combinations: 1.2DL+1.0LL+1.0E 1.2DL+0.5LL+1.0E I am doing Time history, response spectrum and push over analysis on RCC frame using SAP2000. Many thanks

13 March 2019 4,799 0 View

What is the allowable displacement of the building based on American codes?

Hello I want to check my results against the UBC or IBC codes I got story displacements from SAP2000. I found two equations in UBC 1997 but they were for story drift, I want the equation of the...

11 March 2019 8,339 5 View

Why roof displacement increased after installing shear walls for 21 stories RCC Frame?

Hi I am studying the effectiveness of shear walls as seismic retrofitting technique. I modeled two 21 story frames, first one without shear walls, and the second with shear walls. After carrying...

07 March 2019 6,612 4 View

Drift for 3 stories RCC frame is 0.1m, but 7.0m for 21 stories. What wrong?

I have modeled two frames on SAP2000 and only different is the number of stories. First on is 3 stories and the second is 21 stories. Surprisingly, the drift of first model was 0.1m and for the 21...

06 March 2019 2,892 3 View

How to show Time History analysis on SAP2000? from which mode?

I did run analysis for: * Dead * Live * Modal * TH I want to compare the displacement before and after shear walls. which displacement I should compare? from which mode shape? Surprisingly, for...

02 March 2019 8,803 3 View

Why displacement for first 3 mode shapes increased after installing shear walls on SAP2000?

I am trying to compare the effectiveness of shear walls in RC building. I modeled the building on SAP2000 to make it as a reference. I copied the model to another folder then I modeled the shear...

01 March 2019 5,866 5 View

How can I scale ground motion on SAP2000 (0.2g for example) ?

I just uploaded the time history file on SAP2000, and I want to scale the motion to 0.17, 0.2, 0.22 How can I do this please?

01 February 2019 1,652 7 View

How to convert acceleration plot to displacement plot?

Hi, I have acceleration data from Arduino with DXL335 accelerometer and I want to get the displacement plot. How can I do that? Kind Regards

01 January 1970 7,739 2 View