Materials and Sections
March 28, 2010Basically, materials and sections are already assigned into
the model by the previous modeler, if your model is directly from SACS model.
In this case, things got a little bit easier and you just need to check
generally whether your elements have their sections and material and in many
cases they’ll have it. If you are
planning to construct your model from scratch, then materials and sections need
to be assigned properly for each element/member. This can be done using both
SACS and PREFRAME or GENIE. Design drawing or as built drawing is crucial for
you in assigning sections and materials.
Assigning the materials and sections sometime can be difficult
especially if you are working with unfamiliar software. No materials or
sections will make the software terminate the analysis and you need to debug
what’s happening. So, always keep in mind that you do have all the elements
with their own assigned material and sections before start running the
analysis.
Posted by Mohd Fadly.