Spring Summary

Produce the results of inelastic hinge formation of the spring type in a spreadsheet format table.  

Table Tool in MIDAS/Gen offers a variety of powerful built-in functions. Refer to Usage of Table Tool for detail directions:

From the Main Menu select Results > Result Tables > Inelastic Hinges > Spring Summary

Upon executing the Spring Summary function, Records Activation Dialog prompts.  Click  after selecting the output entities such as nodes or elements, loading conditions, eigenvalue modes, etc. Click  to produce a table for the selected entities. It may take a long time occasionally.

Note

Refer to Results Table of "Usage of Table Tool" for the usage of Records Activation Dialog.

Refer to Usage of Table Tool and check the following data:

Spring Summary Tables

Prop.: General Link Property

Node1, 2: Node numbers connecting a General Link

Inelastic Hinge Prop.: Inelastic Hinge Property name defined

Load: Time History Load

Time/Step: Time/Step

Deform: Deformation occurred at the current step

Force: Member force occurred at the current step

D/D1: Ductility (Deformation / 1st Yielding Deformation)

D/D2: Ductility (Deformation / 2nd Yielding Deformation)

Status : Hinge Status (Elastic, 1st Yield, 2nd Yield, 3rd Yield)

P1 : 1st Yielding Strength

P2 : 2nd Yielding Strength ?produced only for Trilinear and Tetralinear hysteresis models

P3 : 3rd Yielding Strength - produced only for Tetralinear hysteresis model

D1 : 1st Yielding Deformation

D2 : 2nd Yielding Deformation - produced only for Trilinear and Tetralinear hysteresis models

D3 : 3rd  Yielding Deformation - produced only for Tetralinear hysteresis model

Note

In the case of base isolator devices, ductility (D/D1, D/D2), yield strength and yield deformation are not produced due to the characteristics of the elements.