SAP2000 Using Generalized Displacements
Channel: Gaur Johnson
Date: 2014-04-16

This example illustrates how the generalized displacements feature of SAP 2000 works.  Note that the example is calculating the strain of a truss member only with respect to the x direction--which isn't technically correct. The example only intends to show how the generalized displacement feature works.  One would need to include the displacement effects in the other orthogonal directions as well to capture the actual strain in this 2D truss.