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Hi
I have a simple question. I am trying to have different sections at the end of a forceBeamColumn element with Lobatto integration. I looked at the doc http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/image ... nTypes.pdf, but I couldn't understand how can I have different section for different IP.

Hi
I'm using the print command to write the node and element information into a file. But every time I run OpenSees the node and element information get appended in the file instead of overwriting the file. So I have to manually delete the output file and before I run OpenSees which is not very convenient. How can I get the file to overwrite?

I've NEVER compiled OpenSEES before. But I have to now and I am stuck. On Windows 7, I have VS 2010 Prof and VS 2012 Express. I also have Active TCL/TK 8.5.15 installed to C:\Program files (x86)\Tcl. I downloaded the source from the SVN repository and its the HEAD revision. When I open the solution and then change the C++ include and library references to properly point to C:\Program files (x86)\Tcl\include and C:\Program files (x86)\Tcl\lib respectively, I still cannot build OpenSEES. I get "Cannot find tcl.h" errors, but I know for sure that the proper include folder is in the project and tcl.h exists

Anyone know what is going on?

Hi silvia
I'm using ENT material with an Elastic material in parallel with it in a zerolength element to model the no tension condition at the interface between soil and structure. But the problem is deformation of the soil structure system shows that tension develops in the zerolenght element. But when I replace ENT with Elastic then there is absolutely no problem. How do I fix this problem? Any idea?
Thanks in advance...

Thanks fmk...it worked when I changed the solver in the script

Hi fmk,
Thank you very much for the reply. Actually I want to use GID as post processor. So I need to get the OpenSees output in a format/sequence, compatible to GID input which calls for a little editing/ modification in the source code followed by building the same in Microsoft Visual Studio. As a first step of that I was building the source code as it is i.e. without any modification. But while testing it for a few examples I ended up with errors as mentioned in my earlier post.
So could you please suggest something on this.
Thanks in advance...
Chinmoy

Hi!
I was trying to build the OpenSees source code 2.0.0 in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (Version 8.00.50727) without adding/modifying anything in it. I could successfully release the OpenSees.exe with some warnings. But when I started testing the .exe with the Examples provided, I got run time error while running for Example2.simplenonlinear as follows:

Debug Error!
Program:...
Module:...\OpenSees\ExamplesFiles\example2.simplenonlinear\OpenSees.exe
File:e:\CKolay\OpenSees\Source Code\OpenSees\OTHER\SuperLU_3.0\src\dgstrf.c
Line:311
Run-Time-Check Failure#3-The variable 'iperm_r' is being used without being defined.
(Press retry to Debug the application)

I don't understand why the executable file showing error in the source code when it is already built. Although I checked the definition of the variable 'i_perm' and found it to be right.

I shall highly appreciate if anybody can through some light on this.

Thanks in advance...
Chinmoy

Hi!
I want to use GID as post processor. So the OpenSees output results need to be obtained in a format/sequence which is compatible with GID. Now my question is how do I obtain the OpenSees result in that particular format/sequence.

I shall really appreciate if anyone provide me the detailed steps involved in this.

Thanks in advance...
Chinmoy