Professor Michael H. Scott is Dr. Frank McKenna's right-hand person as part of the OpenSees Development team. This morning (17 June 2021) he gave an invited presentation to the Department of Civil Engineering at Easwari Engineering College (https://civil.srmeaswari.ac.in/) as an introduction to resources available for OpenSees users. Here is the recording.

This is the recording from yesterday's OpenSees Cafecito on getting started with OpenSees in Spanish. As I discuss in this presentation, there are many steps you need to take to make sure you have a good understanding of you model before you type any OpenSees input. Yes it's in Spanish. If you'd like to join our live meetings, register at: https://courses.silviasbrainery.com/courses/opensees-cafecito

At today's OpenSees Cafe @ Silvia Brainery Luigi Caglio, PhD Student and Prof. Michael Scott presented the Background fundamentals and the Brainery Byte they wrote for performing Frame Buckling Analysis in OpenSees. This video contains the presentation material. Of course the discussion following the presentation was even more educational. Join the cafe for such engaging weekly live meetings: https://courses.silviasbrainery.com/courses/LiveOpenSeesCafeWeekly Here is a link to the Interactive Brainery Byte: https://www.silviasbrainery.com/brainerybytes#FrameBucklingAnalysis

During today's OpenSees Cafe at Silvia's Brainery we entered a discussion on the different types of beam integration implemented in the forceBeamColumn element in #OpenSees. Here is a clip from today's meeting: it's the main discussion between Silvia Mazzoni & Michael H. Scott. We thought this clip would be of value to those interested in understanding their model better and refining their tool set. It's about improving your #OpenSeesIQ. If you would like to join our weekly live meetings, sign up: https://courses.silviasbrainery.com/courses/LiveOpenSeesCafeWeekly

This is the recording of the Live OpenSees Cafecito of May 22, 2021. Today Professor Pablo Torres-Rodas from Universidad of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, gave a presentation on the behavior of base connections and gravity systems in special moment-resisting steel frames: "Influencia del comportamiento de conexiones base y del sistema gravitacional en marcos especiales de acero resistentes a momento." The presentation led to an an interesting discussion on pushovers. Yes it's in Spanish! Here is a link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106654 Join us for our regular FREE live meetings: https://courses.silviasbrainery.com/courses/opensees-cafecito

I have finally released my first OpenSees web app: eSEESminiPy You can run OpenSees on your web browser via an intuitive interface! This is version 0.0.1, so please provide me with feedback. check it you at: https://www.silviasbrainery.com/

Today Claudio Sepulveda, a graduate student from UCSD (my alma mater) and Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile, led our discussion of Balancing Energy Quantities in Dynamic Analysis, with an emphasis on #OpenSees. YES, IT'S in SPANISH!

I was invited to give a presentation at a short course on Hysteretic Modeling today. Here is the presentation I put together, I hope it emphasizes the importance to stop and think before you model! Please visit my web page to participate in and support my initiatives: https://www.silviasbrainery.com/