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Liam
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Memory issues

Post by Liam »

What kind of error will be displayed in OpenSees when there is not enough available memory for a model to be constructed and analysed?
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Post by fmk »

it should end gracefully .. under windows it may not .. do you think you are having such a problem?
Liam
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Post by Liam »

From what you are saying it looks like memory is not the issue. I have been modelling various soil foundation models under both linux and windows. There are layers of 8 node brick elements for the soil material and either piles or shallow foundations. Depending on the model, a certain number of soil levels can be used in the model and it will run fine. But if i add one extra level of soil to the model an error message is output

Can't expand MemType 1: jcol 34648
WARNING SuperLU::solve(void)- Error 1.39864e+09 returned in factorization dgstrf()
WARNING ModifiedNewton::solveCurrentStep() -the LinearSysOfEqn failed in solve()
StaticAnalysis::analyze() - the Algorithm failed at iteration: 0 with domain at load factor 1
OpenSees > analyze failed, returned: -3 error flag


All the constraints are the same for each level except the base, so i cant see why this error is occuring, as with one less level it runs fine
Boris
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try different solver

Post by Boris »

Hello Liam,

Try different solver and see what you get?

Boris
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