{"id":30668,"date":"2018-10-01T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-damping-and-elastic-foundation-stiffness-to-mimic-an-external-elastic-support-on-wall\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:49:41","slug":"how-to-apply-damping-and-elastic-foundation-stiffness-to-mimic-an-external-elastic-support-on-wall","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-damping-and-elastic-foundation-stiffness-to-mimic-an-external-elastic-support-on-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"How to apply damping and elastic foundation stiffness to mimic an external elastic support on wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am learning to simulate a transient analysis of an arterial wall (pipe like structure). I realized that to provide an external tissue support,&nbsp; stiffness and damping coefficients are to be applied. Something like these,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transverse shear factor of the arterial wall k = 5\/6 and coefficients related to the stiffness, k = 0:01 Pa\/mm and damping, c = 0:15 Pa.s\/mm, of the external tissue support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now in Ansys Mechanical (Workbench), elastic support on the outer wall seems like the right way to go about the analysis set-up. But how to calculate Elastic Foundation Stiffness (EFS)? Or is there any other way for defining above mentioned coefficients?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Please help.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30668","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["2840"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1249"],"_bbp_subscription":["235330"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["30668"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["897","154603"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["65426"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["65426"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2018-10-02 13:33:41"]},"test":"yk2359"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/30668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/30668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}