8B. ANALYSIS PART 2

CHAPTER 8B 'ANALYSIS' 77 More specifically, in the " Accelerograms " section, the designer selects the directions in which the seismic excitation acts, having the possibility to choose from one to three directions by selecting the corresponding icon "X", "Y" or "Z". The user must then enter the corresponding seismic excitation log file through the "Search" function. This file must be in .txt format and contain in one column the ground acceleration values for each time step. The user must also select the units of measurement of the ground acceleration and the time step of the recording. Finally, it is possible to display each accelerogram via the "Show" button.