Material Tester Error

[Luca Tosolini]

Dear STKO Team,
I am having some problems using the material tester tool.
I was following and trying to replicate the webinar on modelling masonry with out-of-plane push (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m65mJq6 ... Technology).
When I enter the material parameters and try to use the material tester, the curve is plotted but an error message appears in the terminal. Can you help me?
I attach to this message the image of the material parameters and the error that appears on the terminal.
Thanks for your help

[STKO Team]

It's strange, however that red error alone is not enough for me to understand the issue,
you should scroll up until you see the start of the opensees log into the STKO terminal.

This is what I get without the error (using your same params):

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Plugin Library "pdm" correctly loaded
loaded plugin library : pdm
DamageTC3D - Written by ASDEA Software Technology: M.Petracca, G.Camata
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Plugin Library "pdm" correctly un-loaded
Plugin DamageTC3D: number of allocated instances was 2

[Luca Tosolini]

Dear STKO Team,
this is what I get from the terminal. A lot of white space.
Thanks for your help

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         OpenSees -- Open System For Earthquake Engineering Simulation
                 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
                        Version 3.7.0 64-Bit

      (c) Copyright 1999-2016 The Regents of the University of California
                              All Rights Reserved
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PluginFramework - Written by ASDEA Software Technology: M.Petracca, G.Camata
ASDEA Software Technology: https://asdeasoft.net
STKO (Scientific ToolKit for OpenSees): https://asdeasoft.net/stko/
If you use this tool, please cite us:
Petracca, M., Candeloro, F., & Camata, G. (2017). "STKO user manual". ASDEA Software Technology, Pescara Italy.
Plugin Library "pdm" correctly loaded
loaded plugin library : pdm
DamageTC3D - Written by ASDEA Software Technology: M.Petracca, G.Camata
ASDEA Software Technology: https://asdeasoft.net
STKO (Scientific ToolKit for OpenSees): https://asdeasoft.net/stko/
If you use this tool, please cite us:
Petracca, M. & Camata, G. (2019). "A Mixed Implicit-Explicit Tension-Compression Plastic-Damage Model". ASDEA Software Technology, Pescara Italy.
Plugin Library "pdm" correctly un-loaded
































































































Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files/STKO\external_solvers\opensees\physical_properties\utils\tester\TesterND.py", line 807, in onTestClicked
    self.tester.run()
  File "C:\Program Files/STKO\external_solvers\opensees\physical_properties\utils\tester\TesterND.py", line 255, in run
    for item in tu.executeAsync([opensees_cmd, temp_script_file_rel], temp_dir):
  File "C:\Program Files/STKO\external_solvers\opensees\utils\Gui\TesterUtils.py", line 52, in executeAsync
    raise Exception(command, exitCode, output)
Exception: (['C:/OpenSees-Solvers/opensees.bat', 'script.tcl'], 3221225477, b'')
Command: Regenerate
End Command: EditPhysicalProperty

[STKO Team]

From the output it seems that your opensees crashed while closing.
What version of OpenSees / STKO are you using?

[Luca Tosolini]

OpenSees - 3.7.0 (the version compiled by Professor Tarque)
STKO - 4.0.0

[STKO Team]

That's strange, I'm using your same versions and I could not reproduce the issue.
Can you try to do the same with another material (like ASDConcrete3D)? Because the DamageTC3D (old version of the ASDConcrete3D) is a particular material located in an external DLL, which opensees loads at runtime and probably this is creating some issue on your machine

[Luca Tosolini]

Trying with the ASDConcrete3D material, I do not encounter any problem.
I am using the old version of the command because I am trying to replicate the experimentation on masonry walls done by Griffith and Vaculik (2007) as done in one of your webinars.
Do you recommend moving to ASDConcrete3D?
Checking the parameters required by ASDConcrete3D, I see that the biggest difference concerns the dilatancy parameter (m1) which becomes CFD (and the range is no longer 0-1 but 0-inf) and the bm parameter which is no longer present. Is there any way to "convert" the numerical parameter used for m1 into CDF?

[STKO Team]

Actually also the m1 was a parameter that should be calibrated to obtain proper dilatancy.
However for masonry you can try a CDF = 2