LSDYNA is another program that can accommodate progressive collapse if higher degrees of sophistication are required. There are also commercially available programs such as:
http://www.appliedscienceint.com/Home.asp
Regards, Harold Sprague
From: sch.tectonic@bigpond.com
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: RE: Progressive collapse
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:20:16 +1030
As far as I am aware there is no commercial software at present for progressive collapse, just research. Also progressive collapse is more a qualitative issue than quantitative.
Any frame analysis software with a programmable interface would be helpful for the analysis. Without the programmable interface simply copy the model, delete the members and change the loads. With a programmable interface automatically delete members and change loads using the one model, and search for the critical condition.
Regards
Conrad Harrison
B.Tech (mfg & mech), MIIE, gradTIEAust
mailto:sch.tectonic@bigpond.com
Adelaide
South Australia
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