Spring and dashpot in series
Spring and dashpot in series
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I want to model a spring and dashpot in series between two nodes. It is easy to define them in parallel, but hard in series. Does anyone have idea about this? THANKS!
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Spring and dashpot in series
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RE: Spring and dashpot in series
Connectors are by far the most powerful and flexible modeling construct - check out the available behaviors...
RE: Spring and dashpot in series
RE: Spring and dashpot in series
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If you want the nodes to stay colinear, you could use *COUPLING and *KINEMATIC to tie the relevant degrees of freedom.
Regards
Martin
RE: Spring and dashpot in series
RE: Spring and dashpot in series
What type of analysis are you trying to do and what are you trying to model?
RE: Spring and dashpot in series
I am trying to model the transient behavior of mass-spring-damper system subject to transient loading. The simple mass-spring-damper system I am adopting now is the Maxwell model (which is two point masses connected by a spring and a dashpot in series).