Spring and dashpot

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bassking
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Spring and dashpot

Post by bassking » Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:17 am

Hello, i'm studiyng the seismic response of a multi span bridge. In my analysis i take great attention to the soil-structures interaction. The simpliest model to study the problem is to substitute the soil under the foundation with a spring and a dashpot. So i have a costant K for the spring and a C for dashpot, can i use zeroLength element for the analysis, maybe using Maxwell material, who take in account stiffness and damping?

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