About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

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Linbetter
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About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by Linbetter » Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:37 pm

Hello engineers,

I want to extract the stress-strain curve of opensees uniaxialmaterial.I designed a prismatic test block to simulate.
Below is the code:

wipe
model BasicBuilder -ndm 2 -ndf 3
node 1 0.0 0.0
node 2 0.0 0.3
fix 1 1 1 1
uniaxialMaterial Concrete01 1 -36800 -0.002 -6000 -0.008
section Fiber 1 {
patch rect 1 10 10 -0.075 -0.075 0.075 0.075
}
geomTransf Linear 1
element nonlinearBeamColumn 1 1 2 5 1 1
recorder Node -file C2.out -time -node 2 -dof 1 2 3 disp
pattern Plain 1 Linear {
load 2 0 -1 0
}
constraints Plain
numberer Plain
system BandGeneral
test NormDispIncr 1.0e-6 100 2
algorithm Newton
integrator DisplacementControl 2 2 0.000001
analysis Static
analyze 1000

I get the following error :
ForceBeamColumn2d::update() -- could not invert flexibility

Is the method I used wrong?
Can anyone help me by that error ??
I appreciate your help.

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by selimgunay » Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:21 am

uniaxialMaterial Concrete01 1 -36800 -0.002 -6000 -0.008

Can you first replace this with an elastic material to see if the problem is due to this?

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by Linbetter » Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:47 am

selimgunay wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:21 am
uniaxialMaterial Concrete01 1 -36800 -0.002 -6000 -0.008

Can you first replace this with an elastic material to see if the problem is due to this?
Thank you so much for your help!The program runs successfully after replacing concrete01 with elastic materials.But I want to get the stress-strain curve of other uniaxial materials. Is there a problem with the element I selected?Or my whole method is wrong?

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by mhscott » Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:31 am

You are putting the beam into flexure and there is no r/f steel so no tension force to balance compression force.

If all you want is stress-strain from a material, use a truss element, not a beam-column element.

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by selimgunay » Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:59 am

Another option is to apply axial shortening to your column.

This OpenSees based application allows visualizing stress-strain relations of common steel and concrete materials used in OpenSees

https://apps.peer.berkeley.edu/bridgepbee/

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by fmk » Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:47 pm

you could try another modelbuilder provided just for testing material .. here is an example i used awhile back

model UniaxialMaterialTest
uniaxialMaterial Elastic 1 3000
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 2 1 -min -0.001
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 3 1 -max 0.001
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 4 1 -min -0.001 -max 0.001

set strains {0.00 0.0005 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.0005 0.0 -0.0005 -0.0001
-0.002 0.0}

proc doStrains {matTag strains} {
puts "\n Testing $matTag"
uniaxialTest $matTag
foreach strain $strains {
strainUniaxialTest $strain
set stress [stressUniaxialTest]
set tangent [tangUniaxialTest]
puts "strain: $strain stress: $stress tangent: $tangent"
}
}
doStrains 2 $strains
doStrains 3 $strains
doStrains 4 $strains

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by Linbetter » Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:14 pm

mhscott wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:31 am
You are putting the beam into flexure and there is no r/f steel so no tension force to balance compression force.

If all you want is stress-strain from a material, use a truss element, not a beam-column element.
Thanks professor,I tried to use the truss element, but the program still fails.Then, I solved the problem by using zeroLength element and changing the dimensions.Thanks for your help!

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by Linbetter » Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:16 pm

selimgunay wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:59 am
Another option is to apply axial shortening to your column.

This OpenSees based application allows visualizing stress-strain relations of common steel and concrete materials used in OpenSees

https://apps.peer.berkeley.edu/bridgepbee/
I solved the problem by using zeroLength element and changing the dimensions.Thanks for your help! :D

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Re: About openses uniaxial material stress-strain curve

Post by Linbetter » Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:25 pm

fmk wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:47 pm
you could try another modelbuilder provided just for testing material .. here is an example i used awhile back

model UniaxialMaterialTest
uniaxialMaterial Elastic 1 3000
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 2 1 -min -0.001
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 3 1 -max 0.001
uniaxialMaterial MinMax 4 1 -min -0.001 -max 0.001
My problem has been solved, but still thank you for the new solution, I will try to solve it with your method.Thanks a lot! :D

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