Damping Matrices Revisited
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 140, Issue 8
Abstract
After a brief review of the problems entailed by the so-called proportional damping matrices, this paper elaborates on a simple technique to construct damping matrices that guarantee the fraction of damping in each mode to be positive and adequate and accomplishes this without solving for either the modes or the natural frequencies. Although the resulting matrices do not generally satisfy the proportionality condition, this fact is irrelevant for the purposes to which such matrices are put.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 140 • Issue 8 • August 2014
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© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Sep 19, 2013
Accepted: Jan 6, 2014
Published online: Feb 10, 2014
Discussion open until: Jul 10, 2014
Published in print: Aug 1, 2014
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