Example .tcl files for BeamColumnJoint Element don't work?

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YH Bao

Example .tcl files for BeamColumnJoint Element don't work?

Post by YH Bao » Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:44 pm

Has anyone run this example in Opensees v1.6.0 ? Does it work?
I was told that there is an arguments-match problem in the command - "uniaxialMaterial Pinching4 ..." It seems that the last argument - "$damage" should be omitted to get though. But, if do so, when run this example in Opensees, the command window will say "the linearSysofEqu failed in solve() StaticAnalysis::analyze() ". Thanks.

(my OS is windowsxp with sp2)

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Post by berktaftali » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:28 am

The user manual has the syntax for the last version of Pinching4 material which is not checked into CVS yet. I contacted the author regarding this. Check out the website below for the updated code and documentation:

www.ce.washington.edu/~nmitra
Berk Taftali
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Candidate, Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Email: gte994y@mail.gatech.edu

Araj
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Post by Araj » Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:25 pm

The TCL script given in the website

www.ce.washington.edu/~nmitra

still doesn't work on OpenSees V 1.6.0. I was told that there was a bug in this software. There is a new version available now OpenSees V 1.6.1 and the new script available in the above website work in it.

Regards,
Aloke

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