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I am trying to model the contact between reinforced concrete beams/columns and a masonry panel. The beamcontact2d function works when i use an elastic section for the beams/columns. however, when i try and use a fiber section to model the beams/columns, the model doesn't work. Is there a way of usin...

I'm having a problem using the beamcontact2d element. Whenever I try to use the beam contact, the analysis doesn't (returns a -3 error flag). I've run analysis with just the beam elements and just the quad elements, so I know that these aren't the problem. I've followed the same procedure for using ...

I'm having a problem creating a template3Dep material. Every time I try and create one it returns: WARNING could not create Template3dep material. I even tried just copying one of Boris Jeremic's examples out of his OpenSees UCD Computational Geomechanics: Command Manual, but it still doesn't work. ...

I was wondering how exactly I'm meant to define the lagrange node. Do I simply create an arbitrary node, or should it be part of the element/beam concerned?