Enter the loss factor in ANSYS

- February 3, 2021 at 1:44 pm
  
  RHYLANE
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, I have a structure made up of two concrete blocks laid on layers of rubber. The two blocks are linked by a steel spacer.nI need to insert concrete block loss factor (0.175), rubber layer (0.2) and metal spacer (0.02) but don't know how?nPlease help me.n
- February 4, 2021 at 7:47 pm
  
  Dave Looman
  Ansys Employee
  
  In ANSYS, the loss factor for a material is specified as the material property DMPS (Constant Structural Damping Coefficient.) The command to specify it would be MP,DMPS,(Mat Number),Value. In a piezoelectric analysis there is the material property LSST, but you don't sound like you are doing a piezoelectric analysis!n
- February 5, 2021 at 1:46 pm
  
  RHYLANE
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you very much sir for your answer. just I would like to know how I can insert the loss factor in the case of the COMBIN14 elements in ANSYS Workbench, knowing that for these elements no material is defined.nN.B: the COMBIN 14 elements are used to model the caouatchouc.n

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