crash in v1.6.0 when adding an existing element ID

denizutkutug · Post by **denizutkutug** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:54 am

Hi,

I have encountered this error (most probably a bug) after I have assembled the connectivity via copy-paste without changing the elementID tag. The problem in the code is as follows;
element elasticBeamColumn 1 1 2 $c01_A $m01_E $c01_I 1;
element elasticBeamColumn 1 3 4 $c01_A $m01_E $c01_I 1;

Well the point is; while running the script opensees rises the following error and then it crashes without returning the command line interface.

Error Message:
Domain::addElement - element with tag 1already exists in model
WARNING TclModelBuilder - addBeam - could not add beam to domain

I am running opensees v1.6.0 on win32 platform (XP with SP1).

Best regards.

JunLi · Post by **JunLi** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:30 pm

Hi,Colleague

It may be not a bug. The tag number of the element should be unique. However, you defined the same element number for different elements.

Post by **fmk** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:25 pm

it's not a bug .. it's a problem with your i/p file as previous post suggests .. element, node and load pattern id's must be unique.