High stiff chevron frame

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Gholamreza
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High stiff chevron frame

Post by Gholamreza » Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:14 am

Hello, I wonder to know How to model a chevron frame with high stiffness ? I used code below but I keep receiving this error:

node 1 0. 0.
node 2 3. 0.
node 3 1. 2.
node 4 2. 2.

fix 1 1 1 1
fix 2 1 1 1
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uniaxialMaterial Elastic 3 1e10
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element truss 4 1 3 0.5 100
element truss 5 3 4 0.5 100
element truss 6 2 4 0.5 100
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Error: ProfileSPDLinDirectSolver::solve() - aii < 0 (i, aii): (2, 0)

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Re: High stiff chevron frame

Post by fmk » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:38 pm

with truss elements you have a mechanism .. have you any structural analysis background?

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