Soil Pile interaction in THM process

[khagendra]

Hi,

I am a graduate student in civil engineering and trying to make a project on soil-pile interaction in THM coupling. While a simulate my project without any load on pile, I can read outputs, whenever i apply some vertical loading on pile, I am getting " Gauss Point Error". How can I solve this problem. Besides this I am unable to generate a structures mesh ( i.e. i want to create a mesh with all rectangles instead of triangular elements).

PS: I am using a student version (GID 12.0.7) right now.

Thank you,

khagendra

[escolano]

You can mesh with quadrilaterals with
Mesh->Element type->Quadrilateral
and select the surfaces
this generate unstructured quadrilaterals, to generate structured ones set
Mesh->Structured->Surfaces->Assign number of cells
the select the surfaces
and then the number of divisions of each two directions (select the lines with these divisions)

[khagendra]

Thank you for the help regarding meshing. Could please help me the simulation problem that I'm facing, i.e., the "Gauss point error" while I try to simulate with external loading on pile under the Thermo hydro mechanical process.

Thank you in advance

Khagendra

[khagendra]

Thanks for your help regarding the meshing. Could you please check for the loading criteria in Thermo-hydro-mechanical process.

Thank you,

Khagendra

[escolano]

I can not aid you with the calculation problem: I am not an user of Code_brigth
Try to have a look to the input and output files of Code_brigth, maybe you are able to detect something related with the error.