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shell linked to frame
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Dear Sayattia,
It seems like the wall is acting as a deep beam. As the deep beam is much stiffer than the frame element (supporting beam) the load will not be transfered to the beam. You have two ways to solve this problem:
1) Model the support beam with shell elements. In the last row of shell elements you can include a more thick shell, representing your beam geometry (the wall will still take some load as a deep beam).
2) Neglect the wall stiffness. If you set as 0 the membrane thickness the wall will only be a load for the beam. Personally I do not like this approach, because the concrete wall actually is a deep beam and you are not representing the physical problem correctly.
Regards,
Sebastian
It seems like the wall is acting as a deep beam. As the deep beam is much stiffer than the frame element (supporting beam) the load will not be transfered to the beam. You have two ways to solve this problem:
1) Model the support beam with shell elements. In the last row of shell elements you can include a more thick shell, representing your beam geometry (the wall will still take some load as a deep beam).
2) Neglect the wall stiffness. If you set as 0 the membrane thickness the wall will only be a load for the beam. Personally I do not like this approach, because the concrete wall actually is a deep beam and you are not representing the physical problem correctly.
Regards,
Sebastian
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