How to Model two orthogonal Soil Elements (QuadUP) ?

[bayram_aygun]

Hi,

I want to model two quadUP elements which are perpendicular to eachother: one will be in x-y plane and the other will be in y-z plane.

Does anybody know how to do that?

For the first soil element in x-y plane I can write:

#Define Soil Nodes
# x y

node 1 0. 0.
node 2 10. 0.
node 3 10. 10.
node 4 0. 10.

But for the second one : I must deal with 3 coordinates which is against the nature of quadUP (2DOF)

#Define Soil Nodes
# x y z

node 8 10. 0. 0.
node 9 10. 0. -10.
node 10 10. 10. -10.
node 11 10. 10. 0.

When I do the analysis OpenSees crashes.

Any help would be appreciated,

[amin_asareh]

Hi,

Do you change the number of dimentions when you use these two elements. you have to have two separate model builders for using these two elements together in a code.