CE 5310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Limit Point, No Type, Prope
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Ce5310 plastic analysis and design of structures, university of texas at arlington prepared by dr. shih-ho chao. General: perform-2d (windows-based) is a refined version of drain-2d (dos-based), which is a general purpose computer program for nonlinear static and dynamic analyses of. Drain-2d was first developed in 1970"s at uc berkeley by dr. Graham powell and his associates and modified over time. This program was widely used in academia for research purposes for several decades. After several major earthquakes occurred during 1990"s, however, structural engineers have been asked to ensure the performance of structures (controlled damage and its locations, drift control, etc. ) under design basis earthquake or maximum considered earthquake. This requires that engineers to deal with inelastic behavior of structures. Thus, performing nonlinear analysis is becoming routine practice for structural engineers currently. Perform-2d previously belonged to ram international and now is a product of csi (computers & structures, inc. ), and becoming a 3-dimensional analysis program (perform-3d).
