CSI PERFORM-3D 6.0.0
CSI PERFORM-3D version 6x | 127.0 mb Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI), leader in software tools for structural and earthquake engineering, has released 5.0.1 version of PERFORM-3D is a structural-engineering software useful for the performance assessment of structural systems. Traditionally, earthquake-resistant design has been strength-based, using linear elastic analysis. Since inelastic behavior is usually allowed for strong earthquakes, this is not entirely rational. Strength-based design considers inelastic behavior only implicitly. Displacement-based (or deformation-based) design considers inelastic behavior explicitly, using nonlinear inelastic analysis. Displacement-based design recognizes that in a strong earthquake, inelastic deformation (or ductility) can be more important than strength. PERFORM-3D allows you to use displacement-based design. Procedures for displacement-based design using inelastic analysis are specified in ASCE 41, “Seismic...