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brag006
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Recorder Error?

Post by brag006 » Mon Aug 11, 2014 1:42 pm

Hi,

Just checking what the purpose of this output in NodeRecorder.cpp on line 804

opserr << "NodeRecorder::initialize - numNodes: " << numNodes << endln;

It's coming up in one of my analyses and not sure if it is an 'error' or not

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Re: Recorder Error?

Post by fmk » Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:40 am

it was a line used for debugging that got left in the code .. i have removed from the source code .. thanks for pointing it out.

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Re: Recorder Error?

Post by tsteele » Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:30 am

On the topic of recorder errors, the newest release (2.4.4) does not record forces for zeroLengthContact2D elements. It just gives zeros. The recorder works fine in 2.4.3. Has anything been purposely changed, or is this a bug in the new release?

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Re: Recorder Error?

Post by fmk » Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:24 pm

it should be recording the forces .. the fact that you are getting 0 and not blanks may indicate there are 0 forces in the element .. if that is the case, question what did change between 2.4.3. and 2.4.4 that now results in 0 forces for your script?

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Re: Recorder Error?

Post by tsteele » Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:19 am

Thank you for your response. I will continue using 2.4.3 for now until I figure out why my forces are all zero. I will post again if the solution is relevant to other users.
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