Product: Abaqus/Standard
Benefits: You can create global damping matrices as part of a matrix generation procedure and condensed damping matrices as part of a substructure generation procedure. You can control the matrix and substructure generation process, making these procedures more versatile and efficient.
Description: Global viscous and structural damping matrices can now be generated for user-supplied global mass and stiffness proportional damping coefficients during matrix and substructure generation procedures in Abaqus/Standard. You can also control the content of overall damping matrices in the damping matrix operators.
Damping control options allow you to
generate viscous/structural damping matrices that include material and/or element properties only,
generate viscous/structural damping matrices that include global damping properties only,
generate viscous/structural damping matrices that include combined material and global properties, or
exclude viscous and/or structural damping altogether.