Problem with plot Recorder in OS

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Fame
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Problem with plot Recorder in OS

Post by Fame »

Hi everyone, I started using OpenSees for about two days and trying to learn the commands. In the Moment curvature example, the graph was generated using Mathlab. I am trying to use the plot recorder command in openSees but could not get a result. Can anyone help?
vesna
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Re: Problem with plot Recorder in OS

Post by vesna »

Can you show me your recorders, your plot function and tell me what do you want to plot?
Fame
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Re: Problem with plot Recorder in OS

Post by Fame »

I am trying to plot moment curvature.
Here are my commands
recorder Node -file section$secTag.out -precision 2 -time -node 2 -dof 3 disp

recorder plot section$secTag.out "Moment" 10 10 400 400 -columns 2 1
the file was created but not the plot on my screen
vesna
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Re: Problem with plot Recorder in OS

Post by vesna »

The recorder you have will record moment-rotaion of the node 2, not moment-curvature.

The plot recorder looks good to me. Why don't you try to remove variables from the name(e.g., instead of section$secTag.out use MomRot.out).
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