WARNING meanConsolStress is 0 in solid elements, ru will div

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WARNING meanConsolStress is 0 in solid elements, ru will div

Post by bayram_aygun » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:57 pm

Hi,

I'm analyzing a soil code with the following materials and elements: PDMY, PDIMY, FSP, PyLiq1, Quad.

The gravity analysis runs fine.
The elastic transient analysis (without updating the materials) is also OK.

When I try to update and conduct the transient analysis, I get the following message:
"WARNING meanConsolStress is 0 in solid elements, ru will divide by zero PyLiq1: Adjacent solidElems: 10001,10001"

Apparently, the consolidation stresses are not recorded and that's why there is a division by zero.

I checked almost everything but so far no success. Did anybody encounter a similar problem?

Any idea will be greatly welcomed,

Thanks,
Bayram Aygun
Graduate Student, Civil&Env. Eng.
Rice University

bayram_aygun
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Post by bayram_aygun » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:34 am

In my case I changed the analysis part from:

"# GRAVITY APPLICATION (elastic behavior)
# create the SOE, ConstraintHandler, Integrator, Algorithm and Numberer
#system ProfileSPD
#test NormDispIncr 1.D-12 25 0
#constraints Transformation
#integrator LoadControl 1 1 1 1
#algorithm Newton
#numberer RCM
#
# create the Analysis
#analysis Static
#
#recorder Node -file SoilDisp.dat -time -node 5001 5010 5045 -dof 1 2 disp
#
#analyze
#analyze 2"

to

"system ProfileSPD
test NormDispIncr 1.e-5 10 0
algorithm ModifiedNewton
constraints Transformation
integrator LoadControl 1 1 1 1
numberer RCM

# create the Analysis
analysis Static

analyze 2"

and I got rid of the error but I'm still trying to verify the soil model responses...
Bayram Aygun
Graduate Student, Civil&Env. Eng.
Rice University

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