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This command is used to construct an eight-node 3D brick acoustic element object based on a trilinear isoparametric formulation.

{| 
| style="background:yellow; color:black; width:800px" | ''' element AC3D8 $eleTag $node1 $node2 $node3 $node4 $node5 $node6 $node7 $node8 $matTag'''
|}

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{|
|  style="width:150px" | '''$eleTag''' || unique element object tag
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|'''$node1 ..$node8''' ||8 end nodes
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| '''$matTag''' || Material Tag of previously defined nD material
|}


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For further documentation and figures see attached:[http://opensees.berkeley.edu/doc/AC3D8.pdf pdf]

Reference:
ABAQUS theory manual. (2.9.1 Coupled acoustic-structural medium analysis)

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Code Developed by: <span style="color:blue">  </span> Quan Gu, Yichao Gao and Zhijian Qiu