CE411: STRUCTURES II
SAP2000 INPUT FILES
Instructor: Dr. Chris Mullen 
(http://www.olemiss.edu/~cvchris)
(Last Update: 7-27-01)


 

Select SAP2000 input file name given below:

1-: ie2_1.s2k;
2-: p1_8.s2k;
3-: grid_9_4.s2k;

The discussion below provides a brief description of the problem solved using the above input files.


Download files presented in class next to hypertext above. All files are text files, hence the "*.txt" extension.
You may execute them on a PC containing the SAP2000 software (see below), but you must first rename the files so that they have the form "filename.s2k" without the quotation marks.
Double clicking the mouse on the SAP2000 icon initiates the session.
Select Import option under the File pull-down menu and find the file on your PC.  This will create a graphical database file you can use to visualize the model, edit it if necessary using multiple pull-down menus, and then execute it by selecting the Run option of the Analysis pull-down menu.
Multiple output files are created including some that are text files and some that are binary database files readable only by SAP2000.
Use the Help pull-down menu for further information or the SAP2000 manuals available in Room 213 Carrier.

You may access the full educational version of  SAP2000 Nonlinear on PC's in the Civil Engineering Computer Graphics Lab (CECGL), Room 213 on the second floor of Carrier Hall.  A student version (30-node limit) is also available when the CE411 textbook by Paz and Leigh.

Running on the PC's requires a student account for the CECGL obtained by contacting the instructor.
In class, the graphical model file was demonstrated.  The input file, ie21.s2x, was presented to solve the Illustrative Example problems 2.1 and 2.2 in the text. The Matlab solution to the corresponding theoretical solution is discussed in the Matlab download section.
In class, on 7-19-01, the graphical model file was created and a hand solution executed as an Exam 1 review exercise.  The input file, p1_8.s2x, was presented to solve problem 1.8 (without the concentrated moment) in the text.