Step output

This post-processing module applies to all analysis types and provides, in text file-type of output, all the analytical results (nodal displacements/rotations, support and element forces/moments, element strains and stresses) obtained by SeismoStruct at any given analysis step. The entire step output, or selected parts of it, can be copied to text editors for further manipulation, using the corresponding menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, toolbar buttons or right-click popup menu.

Rather than copying and pasting the contents of this module, users may also choose to simply use the Export to Text File facility, which gives also the possibility of choosing the start and end output steps of interest, together with a step increment. This useful facility is available from the toolbar button .

Finally, and as noted here, users may also activate the option of creating, at the end of every analysis, a text file (*.out) containing the output of the entire analysis (as given in this module). This feature may result useful for users who wish to systematically, rather than occasionally, post-process the results using their own custom-made post-processing facility.

Notes

1. Step output corresponding to Permanent loads applied at the start of pushover and time-history analysis, refers always to the step where equilibrium has been reached, which usually corresponds to the one single increment/iteration required to balance this type of loads. However, there are occasions (very large permanent loads), where more than one increments/iterations are required to reach structural equilibrium. Users who wish to visualise the interim steps carried out to arrive at the final equilibrated solution of such large initial permanent loads, should run a non-variable static analysis, where such output is given.
2. Step output for elastic frame elements (elfrm) is provided always after the output of their inelastic counterparts (infrmFB, infrmFBPH, infrmDBPH, infrmDB), even if the former alphabetically precedes the latter.