{"id":157941,"date":"2022-06-06T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/please-explain-the-difference-between-point-mass-and-distributed-mass\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:07","slug":"please-explain-the-difference-between-point-mass-and-distributed-mass","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/please-explain-the-difference-between-point-mass-and-distributed-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain the difference between Point Mass and Distributed Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a Point Mass is inserted in the model, a Remote Point is created at the position input as the Point Mass definition. The Remote Point is affected with the added mass through a MASS21 element, and is attached to the scoped geometry through Constraint Equations. When a Distributed Mass is inserted in the model, SURF154 surface elements are added on top of the scoped geometry. These surface elements are affected with the distributed mass through Real Constant n\u00b06 defining an added mass per unit area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-157941","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-distributed-mass","topic-tag-point-mass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_btv_view_count":["9761"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}