Excitation of upper floors

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MustafaCivil
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Excitation of upper floors

Post by MustafaCivil » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:20 pm

Hi all,
How can i excit a specific floor from upper floors of my 3D model by a time series,for example simulate vibration of a syclic machine in 2nd floor?
Thanks alot

giovannimilan
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Re: Excitation of upper floors

Post by giovannimilan » Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:06 am

MustafaCivil wrote:
> Hi all,
> How can i excit a specific floor from upper floors of my 3D model by a
> time series,for example simulate vibration of a syclic machine in 2nd
> floor?
> Thanks alot

What about the Sp command with a time series applied to certain nodes (and DoF's) belonging to that floor?

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