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Error message on displacement
Error message:
Question:
What does “10 pile cmn. Diameters” mean? What is “cmn” specifically? Answer:
This is typical non-convergence error for Splice program. The program calculates the displacements from pile tip to pile head, and if the differences in each node does not satisfy the convergence requirement, the program will adjust the pile tip displacement and iterates again. The displacement printed in the error is just the value at final step and does not hold any real/physical meaning. To overcome this convergence issue, try:
- Increase soil sublayers. This will add more soil layers.
- Define Properties > Pile Characteristic, to change "pile boundary condition" from "pile tip is free" to "the pile is assumed to be infinitely long beneath z= “and assign it to the piles.
The “cmn” does not have any meaning in the printed output. This was a misprint in splice listing files (identified as BUG 354472) and will be corrected in future version.