Reply To: Apply rotational stiffness to a base

[Moustafa El-Sawy]

If I need to apply springs in all 6 directions to the base of my solid elements, is there any way to accomplish this (individual nodes not the entire base with a single value).

I was thinking of adding shell elements to the base that share the same nodes as the solid elements and this will enable those nodes to take moment? Do you think this will work? In this case I was planning on assigning these shells as massless and with small stiffness to not affect the dynamic behavior of the structure.