Question Dear Sir, Good day to you sir. Is Etabs can automatically consider the dynamic seismic load?

or how I can do it ? Thanx so much.

Answer Hi Ravi, Not automatically- you have to use the RSA mode and then input the appropriate data in order to do dynamic analysis. The help menu has more info, as pasted below: ******************** Define Response Spectrum Case Form: Define Response Spectra, Response Spectrum Case Data Note: At least one response spectrum function must be defined for this command to be active (see Response Spectrum Function Definition for an explanation of how to define a response spectrum function). After a response spectrum function has been defined, define a response spectrum case as follows: Click the Define menu > Response Spectrum Cases command to bring up the Define Response Spectra form. The Spectra area of the Define Response Spectrum form lists the names of all the currently defined response spectrum cases. Choose one of the following options: Add New Spectrum Clicking on the Add New Spectrum button brings up the Response Spectrum Case Data form. The following topics describe each of the areas in this form: Spectrum Case Name Specify or modify the name of the response spectrum case. Structural and Function Damping It is important that you understand the structural and function damping item. This item specifies modal damping that is present for all modes in the response spectrum analysis. Also, ETABS assumes that the response spectrum functions specified for the response spectrum case are all specified for this particular damping ratio. For example if you specify 2% damping for this term, there is 2% modal damping in all modes for the response spectrum analysis and the response spectrum functions specified for this response spectrum case are for 2% damping. If you have link elements defined in your model and damping is specified in the linear properties of the link element, the actual damping for a mode may be larger than that specified in the structural and function damping term because ETABS converts the damping for the links into modal damping and adds that modal damping to the specified modal damping to get the final total modal damping. In the cases where the final modal damping is different from the damping specified in the structural and function damping edit box (larger than because of added damping from link elements) ETABS modifies the input response spectrum to match this larger damping. The damping modification is based on the 50% median values for velocity in Table 2 of Newark and Hall (1981). For all response spectra in ETABS reduces the entire spectrum based on the velocity formula in Table 2 of Newark and Hall (1981).(2.31 - 0.41 lnb). A maximum reduction of 50% is made.

For example, suppose that a response spectrum is specified as a 4% damped response spectrum and the actual final damping for a mode is 6.3% (because of added link elements). ETABS then modifies the specified 4% damped spectrum by the factor determined in the equation below.

Thus the spectral ordinate at the modal period in the 4% damped response spectrum is multiplied by a factor of 0.89 to obtain the spectral ordinate for 6.3% damping which is the actual final damping associated with the mode. Note that unlike time history analysis, for response spectrum analysis you can not override the modal damping specified for all modes on a mode-by-mode basis. Modal Combination Specify the method ETABS uses to combine modal responses in the response spectrum analysis and also define a damping value. The following options are available for modal combinations: CQC: This is the Complete Quadratic Combination method described by Wilson, Kiureghian and Bayo (1981). This modal combination technique takes into account the statistical coupling between closely spaced modes caused by modal damping. Increasing the modal damping increases the coupling between closely spaced modes. If the modal damping is 0 for all modes, then the CQC method degenerates to the SRSS method. SRSS: This is the Square Root of the Sum of the Squares method. This modal combination technique does not take into account any coupling of modes as do the CQC and GMC methods. ABS: This is the Absolute method. This modal combination technique simply combines the modal results by taking the sum of their absolute values. This method is usually over-conservative. GMC: This is the General Modal Combination method that is also known as the Gupta method. This method is the same as the complete modal combination procedure described in Equation 3.31 in Gupta (1990). The GMC method takes into account the statistical coupling between closely spaced modes similar to the CQC method, and it also includes the correlation between modes with rigidresponse content. The GMC method requires that you specify two frequencies, f1 and f2 that define the rigid-response content of the ground motion. These must satisfy 0 < f1 < f2. The rigid-response parts of all modes are assumed to be perfectly correlated. The GMC method assumes no rigid response below frequency f1, full rigid response above frequency f2 and an interpolated amount of rigid response for frequencies between f1 and f2. Frequencies f1 and f2 are properties of the seismic input, not of the structure. Gupta defines f1 as shown in the equation below.

where SAmax is the maximum spectral acceleration and SVmax is the maximum spectral velocity for the ground motion considered. The default value for f1 is unity. Gupta defines f2 as shown in the equation below.

where fr is the rigid frequency of the seismic input; that is, that frequency above which the spectral acceleration is essentially constant and equal to the value at zero period (infinite frequency). Others have defined f2 as shown below. f2 = fr The default value for fr is zero indicating infinite frequency. For the default value of f2 the GMC method gives results similar to the CQC method. Directional Combination For each displacement, force or stress quantity in the structure, modal combination produces a single, positive result for each direction of acceleration. These directional values for a given response quantity are combined to produce a single positive result. The two available choices for directional combination are as follows: SRSS: Combine the directional results by taking the square root of the sum of their squares. All other input items remaining unchanged, the results obtained using this method do not vary regardless of the excitation angle that you specify. This is the recommended method for directional combination and is the default. ABS: This is the scaled absolute sum method. Here the directional results are combined by taking the maximum, over all directions, of the sum of the absolute values of the response in one direction plus a scale factor times the response in the other directions. For example, if the scale factor equals 0.3, the spectral response, R, for a given displacement, force or stress would be: Blah, blah, blah... where and R1, R2 and R3 are the modal combination values for each direction. All other input items remaining unchanged, the results obtained using this method will vary depending on the excitation angle you choose. Results using a scale factor of 0.3 are comparable to the SRSS method (for equal input spectra in each direction) but may be as much as 8% unconservative or 4% over-conservative depending on the excitation angle chosen. Larger scale factors tend to produce more conservative results. Input Response Spectra Specify any defined response spectrum function for each of the three local coordinate system directions of the response spectrum case as defined by the excitation angle . Also specify a scale factor along with each function. The response spectrum case positive local 3-axis is always in the same direction as the positive global Z-axis. The response spectrum case local 2 and 3 axes lie in the horizontal global XY plane. The excitation angle is an angle measured from the positive global X-axis to the response spectrum case positive local 1-axis. A positive angle appears counterclockwise as you look down on the model. Thus the direction of the response spectrum local 1-axis is determined by the excitation angle, the local 3-axis is in the same direction as the Z-axis and the local 2-axis is determined from the local 1 and 3 axes by using the right hand rule. Note that this scale factor has units of Length/seconds2 and that its value will change as you change the units in your model. Essentially ETABS assumes the response spectrum functions are unitless (normalized) and that the scale factor converts them into the appropriate units.

If you are scaling your response spectrum to match some static analysis results (e.g., base shear), you may want to include that in the scale factor specified for the response spectrum function in the input response spectra area. In that case you would input a scale factor equal to the product of the scale factor to convert the spectrum to the appropriate units and the scale factor to scale the response spectrum base shear to the appropriate level. Modify/Show Spectrum Highlight the name of the function to be modified/shown in the Spectra area of the form. Click on the Modify/Show Spectrum button. The same form that appeared when you defined the function will appear. Make any changes or modifications using that form Delete Spectrum Highlight the name of the function to be deleted in the Spectra area of the form. Click the Delete Spectrum button.