This folder contains ready-to-run 2-dimensional OpenSEES models of five archetype steel buildings designed with perimeter special moment frames (SMFs), with heights of 2, 4, 8, 12 and 20-story.
Note that now you can generate further frame configurations using the new FM-2D software (https://github.com/amaelkady/FM-2D).
• Elkady, A., and Lignos, D. G. (2014). "Modeling of the composite action in fully restrained beam-to-column connections: implications in the seismic design and collapse capacity of steel special moment frames." Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 43(13), 1935-1954, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2430.
• Elkady, A., and Lignos, D. G. (2015). "Effect of gravity framing on the overstrength and collapse capacity of steel frame buildings with perimeter special moment frames." Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 44(8), 1289–1307, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2519.