Reply To: Modelling active damping in Ansys

[murali]

Hi Erik,

I meant, if for a single degree of freedom system, instead of introducing damping as material property or as viscous damping, we use actuators to introduce a counter force to reduce the amplitude of vibration. This damping force will actually depend on the displacement of the mass or the applied force causing the displacement. As you said, I understand it is not possible to give that as a setting or as a BC. So, what other possibilities are there? This is just an overview of the problem in hand.