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Gap-friction element (type 5) for the ANSR-II program

Mondkar, Digambar P.; Powell, Graham H.

UCB/EERC-80/23, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-07, 38 pages (555.6/M642/1980/G)

This report describes a 3D gap-friction element developed for the ANSR-II computer program. The report contains a description of the element properties, the element theory, and a computer program user's guide.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-80-23.pdf (604 KB)