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That idea is more proper.
Action taken! ,
thanks

I want to make Matlab evaluate opensees.exe, source model02.tcl (which builds the model), and then without exiting opensees, source cycle.tcl (analysis). When ı type the following commands in matlab, it can not finilize the second tcl since it can not read the variables which were previously defined...

I am trying to model a simple supported with non-linear bending moment and non-linear shear behavior at the same time(uncoupled but can be aggregated). At first, I thought assigning moment hinges at both ends (w/ zero length element) and a shear hinge at the middle would be proper. i.e. restraint---...