Shell sections constructor does not update the TclBuilder

[salsessa]

Good evening everyone,
I'm dealing with the implementation of a new shell section and I realized a strange behavior of the constructor in TclModelBuilderSectionCommand.cpp ( http://opensees.berkeley.edu/WebSVN/fil ... ommand.cpp ).

Actually, a "MembranePlateFiberSection", which I'm using as reference, is created at line 1211 by the call:

theSection = new MembranePlateFiberSection( tag, h, *theMaterial );

unfortunahtely, it seems that the object "tclModelBuilder" is not updated after the creation of the section. In fact, if I call for the object just after its creation by the command:

theSection = new MembranePlateFiberSection( tag, h, *theMaterial );
SectionForceDeformation *theNewSection = theTclBuilder->getSection(tag);

The object “theNewSection” results empty. This behavior seems common to all shell sections while it does not happen for the frame sections.

I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong. I’d like to get the object in order to implement an appropriate input protocol which must call some methods of the new class in order to update its properties as layers are added.
I would be grateful if anyone could help me suggesting the way I should follow to solve this problem.
Many thanks in advance!

[fmk]

the sections are held elsewhere .. there should be a call to OPS_addSectionForceDeformation() to add the section and OPS_getSectionForceDEformation() when you want the copy .. the OPS procedures are defined in the base class.

[salsessa]

Thank you very much Frank!
I took a while to debug, but the code seems to work!!!