Surface Elastic Boundary Stiffness
Surface Elastic Boundary Stiffness
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I am just starting to dabble with Algor and in SI a N/mm elastic boundary stiffness is stated for surface elements. Is this stiffness that expected to be presented by 1 mm2 or for the whole surface area?





RE: Surface Elastic Boundary Stiffness
RE: Surface Elastic Boundary Stiffness
The morale here is that one should forfeit to make ordinary spring constant models for foundations in ALGOR. Use instead a ground material on a fixed base and then calibrate the investigated response to your intent. Bad (and very good) in that it makes too much explicit the shortcomings of the investigations of the structural effect of expected settlements.
RE: Surface Elastic Boundary Stiffness
Furthermore, with irregular meshes that would make such spring constants inadequate to the intent.