Recording stiffness in zerolength element

[sattar]

I tried the following command line to record the stiffness in the zerolength element. But it does not record anything. Could you tell me how I can record the stiffness of the zerolength element?

recorder Element -file Stiff_3000.out –time -ele 3000 stiff

[vesna]

Recorder you created looks good. Do you at least get the column with the time in it? If not, that means that your analysis did not go through. Check other recorders in your model to see if you are getting any other outputs.

[kampix01]

I've exactly the same problem. If I want to record the stiffness in my zero length element with

recorder Element -file $result_fileTIME_springK -time -ele $SPRING_tag stiff;

I only got back the timesteps of my calculation.
If I leave the '-time' option beside, nothing is written to my outputfile. I've no clue what there could be wrong!

[vesna]

I've tested it myself and it did not work either. I looked at the source code and did not see that recorder option there so I removed it from the manual.

[wuhaoshrek]

vesna wrote:
> I've tested it myself and it did not work either. I looked at the source
> code and did not see that recorder option there so I removed it from the
> manual.

Hi vesna,

Could any option record the stress-strain of a fiber in a zerolength element, the zero length
element is assigned with a fiber section, with the zeroLengthSection element. In my model
it did not record anything either, but only time column.

[vesna]

Yes, you should be able to do that.