Dynamic responses of frame structures solved using DQEM and EDQ based time integration method

The dynamic response of frame structures is solved by using the DQEM to the spacial discretization and EDQ to the temporal discretization. In the DQEM discretization, EDQ is also used to define the discrete element model. Discrete dynamic equilibrium equations defined at interior nodes in all elements, transition conditions defined on the inter-element boundary of two adjacent elements and boundary conditions at the structural boundary form a dynamic equation system at a specified time stage. The dynamic equilibrium equation system can be solved by the direct time integration schemes of time-element by time-element method and stages by stages method which are developed by using EDQ and DQ. Numerical procedures and numerical results are presented.