RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error 2

[SethPrice]

Hello,

I have been modeling a 1-story special reinforced masonry shear wall building using RISA-3D version 8.1.3. I have two masonry walls that meet end to end and whenever the model is loaded and solved, I receive the following error.

"Mesher: abnormal intersection detected between wall panels WP31A and WP28B"

The model works fine when either one of these walls is not included in the model, so I can't figure out why when both these walls are included the model seems to crash. Does anyone have any suggestions. I've tried deleting them and re-inputting them several times with no success. Thanks!

-Seth

 

[ToadJones]

I have had similar problems in STAAD and if I remember correctly (years ago) meshes from each side had to meet at shared nodes at the corner.

 

[Ron]

SethPrice...go to the "Tools" tab and select full model merge. Check the box that merges two crossing wall panels.

Try that and run your model again. Should fix it.

 

[SethPrice]

Thanks Ron...I had 4 intersecting walls that connected at their ends and that wasn't working, so I went with your suggestion and just created 2 walls that intersected and then merged them and that seemed to do the trick. I'm a little worried that the loads won't be transferred from one wall to the other because I've never done it that way, but I'm sure it will be fine. Thanks a lot!