NSGE

Bulk Data Entry Defines non-structural material damping for a list of elements or properties.

Format

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NSGE SID TYPE ID VALUE ID VALUE ID VALUE
+ ID VALUE etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

Example 1

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NSGE 5 PSHELL 15 0.02

Example 2

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
NSGE 7 ELEMENT 13 0.02 17 0.03 18 0.02
+ 21 0.05 32 0.02

Definitions

Field Contents SI Unit Example
SID Non-structural material damping set identification number.

No default (Integer > 0)

TYPE This can be one of the properties PSOLID, PSHELL, PCOMP, PBAR, PBARL, PBEAM, PBEAML, PROD, CONROD, PSHEAR, PTUBE, or ELSET, in which case the list of IDs will refer to properties of the stated type, or it can be ELEMENT, in which case the list is of individual element IDs of elements with the specified non-structural material damping.

No default

ID Property ID, Element ID, or Element Set ID depending on the TYPE definition.

No default (Integer > 0)

VALUE Non-structural material damping value.

No default (Real)

Comments

  1. Non-structural material damping in this format must be selected by the NSGE Subcase Information selector.
  2. Optimization is currently not supported for non-structural damping.