Hi;
I'm modeling a bridge and I need to set the modal damping 2% por the first 2 modes and for the rest 5%. How can I do this for time history? Raileigh damping?
Thanks!
Rayleigh Damping
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Re: Rayleigh Damping
you can't. in rayleigh damping you can only specify damping ratio for 2 modes. you might as well take a look at the theory to understand what rayleigh damping is before you use it.
Re: Rayleigh Damping
In order to assign damping values to 3 or more vibration modes, you have to use Caughey damping, but I do not know if such an option is available in opensees.
Re: Rayleigh Damping
it's not. the reason os it leads to a full system of equation matrix which can only be used to solve trivial problems due to memory requirements.