SAP2000 SAP2000 Web Tutorial 1

15. From the Assign menu select Frame and then Releases… from the submenu. This will
display the Frame Releases dialog box.
16. In this dialog box:
Check the End box for Moment M22 (Minor) and Moment M33 (Major).
Click the OK button to apply the releases.
17. The member end releases have now been corrected. Click the Set Elements button on
the main toolbar (or select Set Elements… from the View menu). This displays the Set
Elements Dialog box.
18. In this dialog box uncheck the Local Axes box and the Labels box in the Frames area and
click the OK button.
19. From the Select menu select Select and then Groups… from the submenu. This will display
the Select Groups dialog box.
20. Click on the group name BRACE1 once to highlight it, then, holding down the Ctrl key, click
on the Group Named BRACE2 to add it to the selection. Click the OK button.
21. From the Assign menu select Frame and then Releases… from the submenu. This will
display the Frame Releases dialog box.
22. In this dialog box:
Check the Start and End boxes for Moment M22 (Minor), Moment M33 (Major) and the
Start box for Torsion.
Note: You can apply a torsional release at one end of the frame element or the other, but not
both simultaneously. If you applied a torsion release to both ends, the frame element
would be free to spin about its longitudinal axis, and thus the structure would be
unstable.
Click the OK button to apply the releases.
23. From the Assign menu select Clear Display of Assigns to clear the display of frame releases
from the plan view.
24. Click the Save Model button on the main toolbar, or select Save from the File menu to
save the file.
This completes the assignment of frame element end releases.
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