singleFPBearing element

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natalialioe
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singleFPBearing element

Post by natalialioe » Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:54 pm

Dear STKO Team,

I am studying the friction pendulum bearing modeling and got few questions to ask as follows:

1) For the modal analysis that using linear analysis, what is the value of the isolator effective stiffness that STKO uses? Since the initial stiffness that we define in the element properties is not the effective stiffness.
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2) For the excel that provided from https://asdeasoft.net/?webinar#019, the displacement as an input, does STKO modeling has its own assumption to determine the displacement of sliding isolator?
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3)For some values of singleFPBearing element initial stiffness will occur the instability results of acceleration, does STKO has the recommendation range of the initial stiffness of singleFPBearing element?
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Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,
Natalia Lioe

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Re: singleFPBearing element

Post by STKO Team » Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:44 am

1) For the modal analysis that using linear analysis, what is the value of the isolator effective stiffness that STKO uses? Since the initial stiffness that we define in the element properties is not the effective stiffness.
The eigen analysis in OpenSees uses the current stiffness of the material that you are using. There is no way to tell OpenSees to use a different (equivalent) stiffness.

What we did in that webinar, is to perform an initial analysis with the nonlinear bearing element, and from that we computed the equivalent stiffness. Then there was a custom script (just before the last eigen analysis) where we compute the equivalent stiffness, remove the bearing element, and replace them with elastic springs with the equivalent stiffness.
3)For some values of singleFPBearing element initial stiffness will occur the instability results of acceleration, does STKO has the recommendation range of the initial stiffness of singleFPBearing element?
We don't have a general recommendation for it. Try to play with the stiffness values to understand when it becomes unstable and try to understand why

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Re: singleFPBearing element

Post by natalialioe » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:06 pm

Dear STKO Team,
Thank you very much for the reply, it's very helpful.

Best,
Natalia

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Re: singleFPBearing element

Post by STKO Team » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:57 am

You are welcome.

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