Modelling Options: Stiffness: Contact Elements
Three actions (Longitudinal contact spring, Transverse friction springs, Longitudinal
dashpot)
- Hertzian Contact or Bi-linear with slackness hysteresis rule.
- User specified Initial Gap.
- Compressive and/or Tensile action.
- Friction and Damping attributes available when axial contact occur
- Member only acts during time-history analysis
