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Frame element

• Multiple non-prismatic segments of element length

• Point, uniform and trapezoidal loading in any direction

• Temperature loading

• Automated end offset evaluation

• Moment and shear releases

• Built-in steel sections

• Joint offsets, cardinal point and mirroring of section
• Option for reduced beam section ("dog-bone") modeling

Shell element

• General quadrilateral or triangular element

• Orthotropic material properties
• Six degrees of freedom per joint

• Shell, plate or membrane action
• Thick shell option

• Gravity, uniform, pressure, wind pressure coefficient, temperature loading

Spring element

• Joint to ground (support) spring
• Coupled 6x6 user-defined spring stiffness option (for foundation modeling)

Link element

• Link may be placed between any two joints or from joint to ground (support)
• Multilinear elastic
• Viscous damper with nonlinear exponent on velocity term

• Gap (compression only) and Hook (tension only)
• Uniaxial plasticity (all six degrees of freedom)
• Base isolator with biaxial plasticity behavior
• Base isolator with friction and/or pendulum behavior

Frame plastic hinge element for use with static and dynamic nonlinear analysis

• Axial, flexural, shear and torsional hinge
• Axial load-biaxial moment interaction
• Multilinear behavior including softening