Kelvin Element

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Gholamreza
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Kelvin Element

Post by Gholamreza » Mon Jan 08, 2018 2:38 pm

Hello all,
I want to make a Kelvin element (spring and stiffness in parallel). Can anyone help me how I could do it ?
Can I simply use Elastic Uniaxial Material and Viscous Material in parallel ? or OpenSees ignores one of the material when I use them in parallel ?
Thank you
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Jhno
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Re: Kelvin Element

Post by Jhno » Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:45 pm

Is this what you want?
http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... l_Material
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Gholamreza
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Re: Kelvin Element

Post by Gholamreza » Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:53 pm

My question is if I can I do that ?
because in the note for Viscous material it is said that we cannot use Viscous material in series/parallel with other materials
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