Geometric nonlinearity
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GianmarcoManzo
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Geometric nonlinearity
Hi, can you tell me if using the corotational formulation implemented in stko when I define a forcebeamcolumn element I can grasp both the large p-delta effects and the small p-delta effects? Thank you.
Re: Geometric nonlinearity
The p-Delta transfromation in OpenSEES only deals with p-(large)Delta effects.
The corotational transformation is a more complete form of geometric nonlinearity, involving large displacement and rotation, but neglecting finite strains (a complete nonlinear kinematics used in solid mechanics such as total or updated lagrangian have also finite strains using other strain measures such as the green-lagrange strain or logaritmic strain).
So the corotational transoformation should include the p-(large)Delta effects, but no the p-(small)delta effects. In fact it also neglects the effects of element loads, only dealing with nodal quantities. Thus if you want to include p-(small)delta effects, you may need to discretize your members.
The corotational transformation is a more complete form of geometric nonlinearity, involving large displacement and rotation, but neglecting finite strains (a complete nonlinear kinematics used in solid mechanics such as total or updated lagrangian have also finite strains using other strain measures such as the green-lagrange strain or logaritmic strain).
So the corotational transoformation should include the p-(large)Delta effects, but no the p-(small)delta effects. In fact it also neglects the effects of element loads, only dealing with nodal quantities. Thus if you want to include p-(small)delta effects, you may need to discretize your members.