Performing checks takes a long time

[Elisa Monti Di Sopra]

Hello, I’d like to know if there’s something I could do to speed checks up. I have been doing concrete checks and the time required to perform for instance 16 seismic combinations on a single beam is almost 3 minutes, so to check the entire model it will take hours (tried to check multiple beams at the same time, had to stop after an hour). I tried to uncheck the option “save results in nxf file” to see if a lighter file would perform better, but the amount of time required was the same.
I’m using nextfem 2.3 and the concrete check module.
Thank you for any advice.
Elisa

[NextFEM Admin]

Hello,
checking speed for RC structures in actual version 2.4 has been improved.
However, if you’re still using 2.3 you could use some strategies to speed-up the process:
– use less stations: if you don’t have trapezoidal distributed loads on beam, in most cases it’s safe to adopt 3 stations instead of 5
– the option “Save results in NXF file” does not affect checking speed
– proceed by combinations groups or by element groups: for caching reasons, in v2.3 you’re advised to proceed by groups of elements or combinations (ULS, ELS, and so on) since checking results are cumulated into model.

[Elisa Monti Di Sopra]

Thank you for the quick answer, but it takes forever anyway, not happy about this at all, especially when checking, fixing issues and re-checking elements takes place multiple times… that’s a shame since I think the software in general is really good.

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