{"id":38633,"date":"2019-10-29T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/model-selection-and-boundary-conditions\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:56:28","slug":"model-selection-and-boundary-conditions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/model-selection-and-boundary-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"MODEL SELECTION AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body gets excited with a force of particular magnitude which should be damped with the help of a certain damping material like springs or damping bellows or damping pads. I&#8217;m new to ansys, what should be the boundary conditions to be given on the body? what model should i select? i want the effect of force to get damped with the help of damping materials.This is a typical model that we see in railway coupler dampers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As seen in the fig the force acts on the wedge and the draft pads damp the effect of the force.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>please help<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-38633","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["10811"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["173"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["38633"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","162367"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["97419"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["97419"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-10-30 16:38:50"]},"test":"sid10mahesh"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/38633","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\/38633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}