having access to the element node which does not converge

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redwood
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having access to the element node which does not converge

Post by redwood » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:08 pm

There are some commands in OpenSees for example "nodeDisp $ctrlNode $ctrlDof" through which we have access to nodal displacements during analysis. Then we can use that in OpenSees code to have more control on the analysis. For some convergence problems, a message appears saying a specific element couldn't converge e.g. for nonlinear beam column elements. I was wondering if a code can be written to provide access to this element number and its end nodes during analysis in OpenSees code?

Thank you

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