LOAD: BODY Z and BODY PARTS

[Yahia Halabi]

Hello everyone:

I have a 2-floor building. I want to run the static analysis and Dynamic relaxation analysis for a short period to know the reaction forces from static loading on the base, 

I have two questions: 

1. Should I use LOAD-BODY-Z with LOAD_PARTS together? or just BODY_Z laoding is enough to simulate the self-weight of the structure and some additional loads. 

2. Is it necessary to run DR analysis to  simulate   the static status of the structure? 

[l...@schwer.net]

1\ You likely only need LOAD-BODY-Z if all your parts are to be gravity loaded.

 

2\ Dynamic Relaxation is the preferred way to obtain explicit solution quasi-static results.

 

                --len

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