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<r>Dear all<br/>
Hello<br/>
I am modeling a cellphone tower and I got confused in choosing the right element member for my model...!<br/>
As I understood all of my member, except three main columns, behaves as a truss (please see pic1 and pic2) but when I modeled them as truss elements, I got ...

<r>Dear all,<br/>
Thank you for your explanation.<br/>
I changed all horizontal element (beams) to infrmFBPH and remain all brace ones to truss elements (notice that all columns are remained infrmFBPH).<br/>
Now when I run the pushover analysis I didn’t get the previous error but my analysis ...

<r>Dear Stelios and Tim<br/>
Thank you for your response.<br/>
I changed some members and I tried again but now I have the pervious error on some other nodes!<br/>
could you please take look at the link below (its a screen shot of my model):<br/>
<URL url="http://s5.picofile.com/file/8103774042 ...

Dear all
I modeled a truss structure and when I run my analysis I got error below:
zero diagonal terms encountered at a following nodes: 59,199,202,...
please help.