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    How to convert Durometer Reading to a Stiffness for modelling in Nastran

    Ok maybe I'm just a really green engineer by asking this ... but I have stumbled onto those google searches and all I can calculate is the Young's Modulus (E) which has a unit of pressure. Nastran stiffness is not given in units of pressures. It is in units of lbs/in or N/mm. So my follow-up...
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    How to convert Durometer Reading to a Stiffness for modelling in Nastran

    Hello, Hoping someone can help me out here. First the scenario: We have a test set-up that I have to model in Nastran. As an oversimplification of the set-up, think of a simply supported beam on both ends. The supports are made of steel blocks topped with a 1/4" thick silicon rubber so...

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