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Original Post - 26 Jul 2021 - Michael H. Scott

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I gave a presentation last week for the 6th International Short Course on Seismic Analysis of Structures, hosted remotely and on-site at the University of Palermo, Italy, organized by Prof. Giovanni Minafo and Prof. Cristoforo Demartino.

As you can see in the video, my presentation re-packaged leveraged several blog posts.

Not every slide was about a post and some slides referenced multiple posts. A few yet-to-be-written posts made it in as well. Below are time stamps from the recording with links to the corresponding posts.

00:50 - OpenSees Is Simple

01:55 - Off the Hooke / Start with the Correct Static Resisting Force

04:44 - Early Landscape of OpenSees

06:20 - The Prevalence of OpenSees in JSE

08:03 - OpenSees Source Control: From Zip to Git

13:02 - No CAPS When You Spell the Framework’s Name

14:19 - Just Another Python Module

15:28 - OpenSeesPy Is Not Terrible for the Environment

17:00 - How to Bend Beams

18:41 - A Marathon, Not a Sprint / Minimal Working Example

19:49 - A New Challenge

21:23 - SSI Modeling Challenge

22:46 - A Very Stable Challenge

24:45 - Verifying Ain’t Easy

32:02 - Gimme All Your Damping, All Your Mass and Stiffness Too / Right Under Your Nose

33:59 - The PFEM in OpenSees [FUTURE POST]

35:37 - OpenSees Fire v2.0

39:23 - Means and Ends [FUTURE POST]

40:35 - It’s a Fine Line

41:37 - You Know You’ll Have to Write About It / One More OpenSees Analysis

44:56 - You Get What You Give [FUTURE POST]

This presentation was non-technical, but I’ve strung together other posts to make technical content, e.g., a course syllabus on nonlinear structural analysis if you are interested.

The seeds for the Palermo presentation came from a presentation I gave in 2014 in Medan, Indonesia. No video, but the PDF has some nice nuggets of OpenSees information.

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