Facing problem in the output results of the cyclic loading

RE: Facing problem in the output results of the cyclic loading

Shailja Joshi — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:18:43 GMT

thank you.

RE: Facing problem in the output results of the cyclic loading

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:43:42 GMT

Hello again,

This can be because of a borehole water level or any user-defined water level. Can you check if you have defined either of them?

Both can be seen in the Flow conditions tab, so please check over there. In the Model explorer you can see if a water level is present by expanding the Water option as seen below.

A borehole water level is defined in Soil tab when creating the borehole itself as shown below. Note that by default the value is set at Head: 0.000m (or your chosen project unit of length)

Any user water level can be created in Flow conditions tab.

RE: Facing problem in the output results of the cyclic loading

Shailja Joshi — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:36:00 GMT

thank you sir. but still I am confused that there is no water present in the embankment model so why water load is showing at the bottom? I have attached the screenshot of the boundary condition. apart from this i want to know that can I use point load instead of line loading to show cyclic loading?

RE: Facing problem in the output results of the cyclic loading

Stefanos Papavasileiou — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:26:13 GMT

Dear Shailja,

You are confusing the external water loads (greenish colour) with the line load (blue colour). Since you are performing a dynamic analysis, the default deformation boundary conditions, i.e., fixities are not applied as the dynamic boundary conditions are used.

This causes Output to understand that there is no fixity thus displaying an external water load applied for the whole model. You can ignore this as the dynamic boundary conditions will be considered instead.