Hello every one

I have modeled a steel frame FRP shear wall in abaqus and I'm performing riks step to obtain the load capacity of shear wall to use that in designing a cyclic loading history based on ATC-24 protocol (for obtaining the yield deformation parameter Dy in the protocol). I have specified elastic and plastic properties for steel materials and also elastic and Hashin criteria for FRP material and I insert the imperfection from first buckling mode. But when the wall undergoes some deformation it encounters with the error "A ZERO DISPLACEMENT SOLUTION WAS FOUND IN THE FIRST ITERATION OF A RIKS STEP" some times I get this error when one of hashin damage initiation parameters reach to 1 and sometimes in smaller numbers, I have used both force control and displacement control analysis and also but the error persists. but in a similar model with less beam span the damage countinues and some damage evolution parameters reach to 1. what is the reason for this error and how should I solve it?

sorry for the long question.

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