OpenSeesPy Quick Start - Analysing Continuous Beams (including hinges!)

📂 Download the free project file on EngineeringSkills.com: https://www.engineeringskills.com/posts/parametric-continuous-beam-calculator-with-openseespy 📍 Join EngineeringSkills.com to access all courses and tutorials: https://www.engineeringskills.com/membership In this video, we’re going to build a continuous beam calculator in Python using OpenSeesPy. In our script, we’ll specify: - material and section properties, - overall beam span, - support conditions - loading arrangement, including point forces and moments, uniformly distributed loads and linearly varying distributed loads. Then, with the click of a button, our script will generate the beam reactions, shear force diagram, bending moment diagram and deflected shape. If you want to start working with Python and building your own structural analysis tools, this is a great starter project. Having a quick way to analyse continuous beams is very handy. If you’re a student engineer, having a calculator to check your results against, after each exercise, is a great way of validating your work. It also allows you to generate infinite exercise questions to practice on. More Resources: 📍 An Introduction to OpenSees and OpenSeesPy for 2D Truss Analysis https://www.engineeringskills.com/posts/introduction-to-opensees-and-openseespy 📍 Building a Parametric Frame Analysis Pipeline with OpenSeesPy and OpsVis https://www.engineeringskills.com/posts/building-a-parametric-frame-analysis-pipeline-with-openseespy-and-opsvis Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:23 UV project setup 06:07 Project dependencies 09:06 Defining the structure 12:24 Defining the loading 17:55 Defining hinges 20:36 OpenSeesPy setup 24:00 Adding nodes 32:51 Adding hinges 34:10 Beam elements 38:25 Restraints 39:52 Forces and moments 40:48 Uniformly distributed loads 45:54 Linearly varying loads 52:16 Analysis 54:12 Reactions 55:14 Nodal displacements 57:27 Summary plots with Opsvis 1:04:57 Changing parameters