shaheed
Structural
- Jun 12, 2005
- 6
I am trying to model a raft for a 20 story building using shell elements. I then grounded each node of the raft mesh using "gap" link elements to model the compression only spring stiffness of the soil support condition but there are a couple of things which dont appear to be correct with the model for the following reasons:
1) Firstly the gap link elements seem to take tension as well as compression, which is not what I want. I want compression only
2) I can not get a display of the forces in the link elements.
what am I doing wrong. Help please any comments/hints will be extremely appreciated
1) Firstly the gap link elements seem to take tension as well as compression, which is not what I want. I want compression only
2) I can not get a display of the forces in the link elements.
what am I doing wrong. Help please any comments/hints will be extremely appreciated