Product: Abaqus/Standard
Benefits: You can now define frequency domain viscoelastic behavior through user subroutine UMAT.
Description: Viscoelastic behavior in the frequency domain requires specification of a storage modulus (material stiffness) and a loss modulus (material damping). The UMAT interface and implementation has been enhanced to support the specification of both material stiffness and material damping. This feature allows you to define viscoelastic response with a complex frequency dependence, which is not supported by the built-in models in Abaqus/Standard.
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