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Dear fmk, moderators and other members, I am trying to analyse a simple portal frame with fixed base using ground motion data and I am exciting the structure using UniformExcitation command. i am assigning mass using the 'mass' command in the element itself as shown in the following definition. &quo...

Dear Jeena,

Thank you for your reply. The tcl script is now able to run successfully after incorporating the changes suggested by you. Regarding the results, I shall let you know in this forum if they are turning out to be as desired. Thank you for your time and attention.

Regards,
Nishant

Dear Jhno,
Thank You for your reply. I have incorporated wipeAnalysis in my script and have removed the constraints symmetrically in each stage. However, even now the program shows the same message. Kindly suggest.

Thank You
Nishant

Jhno wrote: > I did run into the same kind of trouble with my soil model. I had issue when updating > the material from elastic to plastic. Although I did have some convergence issue in > the linear domain, it was mostly the result of a ill defined model. > For me, the error came from the following ...

akisingh wrote: > Can you tell me more details with full error description with code, > i try to solve your problem. Dear akisingh, ThankYou for your reply.Following is my code: wipe; puts "Creating domain nodes"; model BasicBuilder -ndm 2 -ndf 2 node 1 0.00 0.00; node 2 2.00 0.00; node 3 ...

Hello, I am trying to carry out staged gravity analysis of a single 2d soil element(linear elastic). The bottom two nodes of the element are restrained in both the horizontal and vertical direction. The top two nodes are restrained in only the horizontal direction. In the 1st stage, gravity analysis...

Hello,

I am facing the same problem. Did you get a solution? Kindly help.

Thank You

Dear All, I am trying to carry out monotonic pushover analysis on a rectangular reinforced concrete cantilever column (fixed at base) having dimension of 0.6m*0.75m with 32 19mm steel bars (with fy=420Mpa) distributed uniformly on all four sides and have used Fiber section (distributed plasticity). ...

Q.1 set outFileID [open data/tmpDsteps.tcl w], what does it mean? Ans. This means that a file named tmpDsteps.tcl is being created under the directory Data and a variable outFileID is being defines which will take the address of the file "tmpDsteps.tcl" as its definition. Q. 2:puts $outFil...