Rigid Foundation

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nimatehran
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Rigid Foundation

Post by nimatehran »

Hello,

I want to rigid a foundation in 2 Dimenstion. I used equalDOF command. when i record the displacements of this foundation, the records differs and not equal and not rigid. can anyone help me?

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MohsenShani
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Re: Rigid Foundation

Post by MohsenShani »

you can use rigidLink.
:D :) try this command
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Re: Rigid Foundation

Post by fmk »

if you used the equalDOF commmand and they are not equal: 1) you messed up, 2) you used a penalty constraint handler and the penalty factors are not large enough, 3) you tried to enforce one node consrained to another constrained to another and you ignored the warning messages.
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