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nicola27
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Stiffness

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I want to understand the meaning of kinti - kcomm - kcurrent in dynamic analysis with rayleigh.
When I want to do an analysis without damping I put in all zeros, OpenSees which uses initial stiffness?
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Re: Stiffness

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Kinit = initial stiffness
Kcomm = stiffnesss at last commit
Kcurrent = stifness at current trial state
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