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Re: hertz-mindlin with viscous damping

 

Hi,

you cannot mix "materials" by this way.
If you need a local damping in HM, you will, probably, need to write
your own HM-visco material, if it has physical meaning.

Anton




On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Christian Jakob
<jakob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I need to create a material with Hertz-Mindlin contact model (given
> shear modulus and poisson ratio) with viscous damping in normal and
> shear direction. The question is: How can I do this?
>
> I can create a viscous elastic material with linear contact model ...
> O.materials.append(ViscElMat(density=2700,kn=1e8,ks=1e8,frictionAngle=1,cn=0.002,cs=0.001))
>
> and I can create an inelastic material with Hertz model, but without
> viscous damping ....
> O.materials.append(NormalInelasticMat(young=2e7,poisson=0.3,frictionAngle=1,coeff_dech=1))
>
> if I try to combine, an error occured:
> O.materials.append(NormalInelasticMat(young=2e7,poisson=0.3,frictionAngle=1,coeff_dech=1,cn=0.002,cs=0.001))
>
> "AttributeError: No such attribute: cn"
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Jakob
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