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EXAMPLE 1-015
FRAME - STEADY STATE HARMONIC LOADS EXAMPLE DESCRIPTION Steady state and periodic time history analysis are verified in this example using a fixed-end beam that is subjected to a uniformly distributed load varying harmonically with respect to time. The maximum midpoint deflections from the SAP2000 analyses are compared with independent results published in Paz 1985. The example is solved using two different calculation methods. They are undamped steady state analysis; and periodic time history analysis. For the steady state analysis, the frequency of the forcing function is used as input into SAP2000. For the time-history analysis, one complete cycle of the sine wave loading function, discretized at 100 equal intervals, is used as input, and, for consistency with Paz 1985, five modes are used in the time history analysis. The fixed end beam is modeled with two objects so that there is a midpoint node where displacements are reported. Each of the objects is internally meshed in SAP2000 into 120 elements each one inch long. Because the line mass in the SAP2000 analysis is lumped at the nodes, this discretization of the beam provides a good approximation of the uniform mass assumed in the example. Important Note: Only bending deformations are considered in this analysis. Shear deformations are ignored by setting the frame property modification factor for shear area to zero. Axial and torsional modes are excluded by excluding the Ux and Rx degrees of freedom from the analysis. GEOMETRY , PROPERTIES AND LOADING

Z 1 120"

200sin(300t) 2 120" 240" 3

Material Properties E = 3,000,000 lb/in2 Mass per unit length = 0.1 lb-sec2/in2 Section Properties b = 12 in d = 10 in I = 1,000 in4

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TECHNICAL FEATURES OF SAP2000 TESTED Steady state analysis of frame systems Time history analysis of frame systems with periodic loading Line mass assignment to frame objects Automatic frame subdivision RESULTS COMPARISON The independent results are taken from Illustrative Example 20.2 on page 434 in Paz 1985. The independent results are calculated using the first five mode shapes. Output Parameter Uz (jt 2) in Percent Difference +0.55%

Load Case SS1 Undamped steady state MHIST1 Periodic time history using 5 modes

SAP2000 0.0544

Independent 0.0541

Uz (jt 2) in

0.0544

0.0541

+0.55%

COMPUTER FILE: Example 1-015 CONCLUSIONS Comparison of the SAP2000 results with the independent results is acceptable. The small difference between the SAP2000 results and the independent results appears to be caused by round off in the independent solution.

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HAND CALCULATION

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