6.10 Damping controls in substructure property definition

Product: Abaqus/Standard  

Benefits: You can control the content of viscous and structural damping matrices in a substructure at the substructure usage stage.

Description: The default settings when applying damping controls in a substructure are now consistent with the defaults used in standard analysis step definitions: the default damping in a substructure includes a combination of all specified viscous and structural damping contributions.

Averaged stiffness and mass-proportional damping factors are no longer calculated during generation of a substructure; the default value for these factors is now zero. You can add stiffness or mass-proportional damping contributions to a substructure by directly specifying these factors as part of the substructure property definition.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual