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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 40, Number 1, October10 2011 , pages 85-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2011.40.1.085
 

Integrating OpenSees with other software - with application to coupling problems in civil engineering
Quan Gu and Ozgur Ozcelik

 
Abstract
    Integration of finite element analysis (FEA) software into various software platforms is commonly used in coupling systems such as systems involving structural control, fluid-structure, windstructure, soil-structure interactions and substructure method in which FEA is used for simulating the structural responses. Integrating an FEA program into various other software platforms in an efficient and simple way is crucial for the development and performance of the entire coupling system. The lack of simplicity of the existing integration methods makes this integration difficult and therefore entails the motivation of this study. In this paper, a novel practical technique, namely CS technique, is presented for integrating a general FEA software framework OpenSees into other software platforms, e.g., Matlab-Simulink
 
Key Words
    coupling systems; OpenSees – Simulink; software integration; client-server techniques; soilstructure interaction; shake table modeling
 
Address
Quan Gu: Department of Civil Engineering, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, P.R. China
Ozgur Ozcelik: Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Buca/Izmir, 35160, Turkey
 
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