Translational Damper
Purpose
Ideal viscous translational damper
Library
Mechanical / Translational / Components
Description
The Translational Damper models an ideal linear damper in a translational system described with the following equations:
where is the force flow from the unmarked towards the marked flange
and
is the speed of the marked flange with respect to the unmarked
one.
Parameters
- Damper constant
- The damping (viscous friction) constant
, in
.
- Initial displacement
- The initial displacement of the flanges, in meters. May be specified in order to provide proper initial conditions if absolute positions are measured anywhere in the system. Otherwise, this parameter can be left blank.