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Damper01/Damper03

Viscous Damper

This damper uses displacement and velocity as inputs, not strain and strain rate, which means, element length is not used to compute strain or strain rate.

Damper01

This Damper01 is a simple 2D viscous damper.

See this example.

  • Number of Nodes: 2
  • Number of DoFs: 2 (Translation: UX, Translation: UY)

Damper03

This Damper03 is a simple 3D viscous damper.

  • Number of Nodes: 2
  • Number of DoFs: 3 (Translation: UX, Translation: UY, Translation: UZ)

Syntax

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element Damper01 (1) (2) (3) (4)
element Damper03 (1) (2) (3) (4)
# (1) int, unique tag
# (2) int, node i
# (3) int, node j
# (4) int, material tag of associated viscosity material