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RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error
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RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error

RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error

(OP)
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

RE: RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error

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.  

RE: RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error

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.

RE: RISA-3D Wall Panel Meshing Error

(OP)
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!

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