seismiCAE – A Computer-Aided Tool for

Performance and Risk Assessment of

Building Structures Using OpenSees
Silvia Mazzoni, PhD
Earthquake And Structural Engineering Consultant

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a Real-Time Scripting and Graphical User
Interface for OpenSees
Scripting: Viewer:
• High-level scripting tool • Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Generate building-model data • generate and/or visualize ALL input
• Materials graphically
• Sections • Save ALL input into script
• Element Types
• Analysis Models • Run OpenSees
• Loads (Gravity & Lateral) • Visualize OpenSees simulation real-time
• Load Combinations • Visualize simulation results interactively
• Models • Export simulation results
• Elevations
• Grids
• 3D Frames
• Generate analysis-model data
• Generate loading and load-combination
data
• Generate OpenSees model of building
• Run OpenSees
• Post-Process OpenSees recorder output
into formatted data

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Model Input

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Material, Section & Element Type

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Visualizer

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Simplified Input

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Material Library
• Elastic
• Elastic
• ElasticNoTension
• Multilinear
• Steel*
• Bilinear & Multilinear
• symmetric & not, define Ks or points
• Steel01
• Steel02
• Concrete
• Confined Concrete*
• Unconfined Concrete
• Concrete01,02,03,04,06,07
• Additional
• Viscous
• SelfCentering
• Combined
• Series
• Parallel
• nDMaterial
• Elastic Isotropic
• Etc.

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Viewer – Sections

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Elevation Input

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Viewer – Grid Model

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Viewer –
3D Frame-Model Input

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Viewer –
3D Frame-Model Input

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Real-Time Visualization of OpenSees

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Visualization of Analysis Results

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Visualization of Structural Response
nodal-displacement response

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Element-Response Visualization

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 Element Response

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Viewer –
Section-Fiber Response

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The model gets saved into a tcl file

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 ..... thank you!!!

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