Helo, im using RSA in my mater thesis and been stuck with this problem for a while and really need help...
Im having some truble creating a 3D frame build with a composite floor (panel and beams on the sides) and continuous columns on each corner. The composite deck should have a semi-rotation-stiff connection to the columns, and for a realistic model of the real frames I used rigid links to connect the column center to beam center. To simulate the connection between columns and beams a tried using Releases on the beams with a stiffness kN*m/rad in the frame direction.
The reason fo the composit deck are due to higher stiffeness on the sides of the floors, simulated with beams in my case.
The rigid link for column to composite floor are defined as: [0, 0, 0, Ry, 0 ,0], 0=check
The rigid link for column to beams are defined as: [0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ,0], 0=check
Even tho the panel and the beams interact in composite action along the span it seems not to be the case in the connection to the column. What im trying to achieve is a composite floor where all the moment goes through the semi-rigid connection. As I see it now the moment going in the panel are not affected by the release. I have tried linear releases but none seems to give the same behavior as the 2D frames.
Is there a good solution for this? And if I only wanted to use a panel without beams what could I do?
