312872018 EETABS Life Saving Hacks: Hacking Mode! Instabilities - Dennis Mercado's Structural Engineers Blog DENNIS MERCADO'S STRUCTURAL ENGINEER'S BLOG Structural Engineering Experiences Told Over A Bottle of Beer ETABS Life Saving Hacks: Hacking Model Instabilities Posted on June 27,.2017 by Engr Dennis Mercado ie instability JPG You should be able to find this file Howdy everyone Z A.\-% it! I'm sure you missed my structural engineering blogs. Lately I’'ve had the transition from chasing the limelight to settling and basking in anonymity and a quiet life. But hey let’s get down to business shall we? So, after modelling the entire geometry, had all the loads applied, entered the correct load combinations and then you get the annoying notice that there are instabilities which is why the results won't show the specx and specy calculations, and deadlines’ looming, how irritating can that ber! Yep, instabilities can be a pain in the ass and they're not easy to spot. But it does not mean it's impossible to have an instability free model. So how do we start to trouble shoot? le advanced sap fire options.JPG What I mean in item number 1 below 1. First, we need to set the “Advanced SapFire Options” tab to Solver Options—»Standard Solver and it's corresponding Analysis Process Options+>GUI Process. This will give you a detailed output on certain points where there were lost computational accuracies in the analysis. If you can find anything about negative stiffness or if the values exceed 11.0 digits, zero in to the location because that’s exactly the area that causes the instability. In the example above, the problem is the diagonal value of the matrix which turned zero. If the diagonal value of a matrix turns zero, then there is instability (you can refer to structural analysis textbooks to verify this). 2. Very near joints. If you are using manual mesh, this is no problem. You can just merge the points. and that mostly solves the issue. But if you're having this problem and you are using auto mesh, then it’s a little bit harder to tweak. Generally, you can slightly alter the meshing and the geometry or reshape somewhere to get this right. By the way, this can also happen to walls that you manually meshed. 3. End releases. If your columns for example are pin supported at the bottom, and say you applied end moment releases at the bottom of the column as well, this would cause instability because of the redundancy. If you intend to have zero bending moments at base, then applying a pin support would be enough and needs no further member end releases. 4, Disjointed members. This normally produces very high displacement values. You can pinpoint this by animating the model and looking for those “insanely huge” displacements that are out of nitpsidannismercadosstructuralengineersblog.wordpress.comi2017I08/27letabs-te-saving-hacks-hacking-model-nstabilties! 18sro EETABS Life Saving Hacks: Hacking Model Instabities —Dennis Mercago’s Structural Engineer Blog the ordinary. A big help would be by looking at the Modal Participating Mass Ratios table and animate at the mode of the peculiar period. 5. Pdelta. This is a bit harder to explain because it has something to do with the framing which is of course a case to case basis. Sometimes it means stiffening a relatively flexible part of the building. Thope I made myself clear with these. And as I recognize that it is very hard to put every imaginable scenario there is to writing this, I welcome your queries which I'll try to answer if I can. Just look for my email address on the right side and send your ETABS model and queries about what's causing the instability and I'll point it out free of charge tomodachi (& 7%) just for you! So don’t be disheartened to see that instability. Where you cant solve it yourself, ask for help. Never hurts to ask the knowledgeable dude out there. The important outcome of this is, if you are able to master the art of trouble shooting you are one step ahead in doing sensibility checks which is indispensable. So stop pouting when you see that instability. Just find it. And I would like to give you the same advice I've been getting while studying Nihongo: BAIL 2 T< RW! (Keep at it!) 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