Rigid Diaphragm Interaction

[Zeeshanbhat]

Dear Team,

I tried to model beam column joint using elastic beam column. When I define the interaction of rigid diaphragm, all the nodes at the joint section are taken as slave node.

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Is there any simple procedure to select only the joint node. Doing it manually one by one will take lot of time in 3D building with 6-7 stories. Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,
Zeeshan Bhat

[STKO Team]

If you create the joints manually, then this is the only way, but it should not be difficult, you can simply allow only the selection of vertices and do a rubber band selection.

Also, if you want to use an automatic approach to beam-column joints, you can have a look at our webinar #10 Nonlinear Analysis of an existing RC building including RC joint modeling