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Elastic Foundation

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matos11

Mechanical
Mar 15, 2014
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Hello.

Can anyone help me with my problem, please? I am working on my project and the task is modal analysis of tank on elastic foundation in Ansys APDL. Elastic foundation is represented by Winkler's model.
For elastic stiffness foundation I used element type SURF154 and add real constant.
This element I surfed to the bottom of the tank. Then I set boundary condition to the base of the tank - fixed displacement to all base without displacement in direction UZ.

Eigenfrequencies of this tank are much lower (1st freq. = 11 Hz) than the tank resting on the rigid foundation (1st freq.=120 Hz). I think that is not correct because I think that eigenfrequencies of the tank on elastic foundation should be higher than tanks on rigid foudnation. I think that I set wrong boundary conditions which should represent Winkler's model.

Could anyone help me?

Thanks.
 
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