Ivar KJELBERG
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                2010/11/26 17:48 GMT-5                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi
No I do not know about that, but you could try to add some damping on your fixed parts with a boundary  force 
-k*u -damp*MyLambda
for eigenmodes set MyLambda variable to "lambda" of COMSOL, for frequency sweep try a 
myLambda = -i*2*pi*freq
and repeat for v, w ...
however it will make your structure move in all directions
--
Good luck
Ivar                                                
                                                
                            Hi
No I do not know about that, but you could try to add some damping on your fixed parts with a boundary  force 
-k*u -damp*MyLambda
for eigenmodes set MyLambda variable to "lambda" of COMSOL, for frequency sweep try a 
myLambda = -i*2*pi*freq
and repeat for v, w ...
however it will make your structure move in all directions
--
Good luck
Ivar                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                                            
                                                
    
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                2010/12/13 10:13 GMT-5                            
                        
                        
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Could you please elaborate a bit? I don't understand how I should implement this boundary force...
Is this a boundary force?
                                                
                                                
                            Hi
Could you please elaborate a bit? I don't understand how I should implement this boundary force...
Is this a boundary force?
                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                        
                        
                            
                                                                                        
                                Ivar KJELBERG
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                2010/12/13 16:28 GMT-5                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi
first of all I have noticed that there are some PML BC's that appear time to time in the structural (v4) (depends on solver mode and on options installed), but I haven really looked into these as I'm not doing accoustic and have not seen any need to try PML's in structural so far. 
What I was also saying is that you have the COMSOL implemented damping parameters (that you migh tune in at a given frequency) but you can also defne a "user" boundary load of the type -w*k[N/m] for a spring load along Z, as well as for an eigenfrequency solver a boundary load of load -w*damping[kg/s]*lambda for a damper (that by adapting the "damping" variable might be critical damping a motion at a given frequency). But dependingon your model I'm not sure its that easy to use these somewhat crudes methods. for a frequency sweep lambda is not defined, but you have "freq", and lambda = -i*2*pi*freq (if I have got that right, pls check carefully ;)
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Good luck
Ivar                                                
                                                
                            Hi
first of all I have noticed that there are some PML BC's that appear time to time in the structural (v4) (depends on solver mode and on options installed), but I haven really looked into these as I'm not doing accoustic and have not seen any need to try PML's in structural so far. 
What I was also saying is that you have the COMSOL implemented damping parameters (that you migh tune in at a given frequency) but you can also defne a "user" boundary load of the type -w*k[N/m] for a spring load along Z, as well as for an eigenfrequency solver a boundary load of load -w*damping[kg/s]*lambda for a damper (that by adapting the "damping" variable might be critical damping a motion at a given frequency). But dependingon your model I'm not sure its that easy to use these somewhat crudes methods. for a frequency sweep lambda is not defined, but you have "freq", and lambda = -i*2*pi*freq (if I have got that right, pls check carefully ;)
--
Good luck
Ivar