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gaohouzhi
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HOW to indetify this problem?

Post by gaohouzhi » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:11 am

Recently ,I construct a 10 story plane frame in opensees.
There are three parts: model , adding seismic load , analysis .

the model is good ,for there are none warnings comes out.

I take the bigbear records as the seismic load ,and modify the peak acceleration as 0.224 g .

And then ,I set the analysis parameters as follows:

rayleigh 0.01 0.02 0.0 0.0
system UmfPack;
constraints Plain;
test NormDispIncr 1.0e-3 100 0;
algorithm BFGS ;
numberer RCM;
integrator Newmark 0.5 0.25 ;
analysis Transient;
analyze 20000 0.005 ;

After analyzing ,WARNings come out : :cry:

WARNING - ForceBeamColumn2d::update - failed to get compatible element forces &
deformations for element: 35(dW: << 1712.25)
Domain::update - domain failed in update
Newmark::update() - failed to update the domain
WARNING BFGS::solveCurrentStep() -the Integrator failed in update()
DirectIntegrationAnalysis::analyze() - the Algorithm failed at time 5.135
OpenSees > analyze failed, returned: -3 error flag
-3
:?:
How could I identify where is wrong ,and how could I settle the problem?

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Post by fmk » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:02 am

element 35 has problems ... look at the sections and the number of integration points .. if too many integration points you can have problems, look at ele to see if forces up to previous step are o.k. .. the element may of course be trashed and need to be removed from the analysis.

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and some appliments

Post by gaohouzhi » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:47 pm

but when i set the Peak ground motion as 0.05g, and I can get the result, and the analysis get through.
so Is there any methods to analyze the model with different parameters in different time?

Could you give me more details ?
I will be very thankful for your help.

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