Augmented Hooke's law in frequency domain. A three-dimensional, material damping formulation (Q675594)

An isothermal, fully three-dimensional material damping modelling technique, to some extent alternative to classic viscoelasticity, is proposed. The method is formulated in the frequency domain as an augmented Hooke's law with a constitutive matrix in which material damping is introduced by adding frequency dependent, complex valued terms to the classical material modulus matrix of Hooke's generalized law. The derivations are based on linear, irreversible thermodynamics and the concept of hidden coordinates. An isotropic augmented Hooke's law with both dilatational and shearing damping has been implemented and tested using a 20-node volume element in the finite element code ASKA Acoustics. A close agreement between finite element calculations and the corresponding exact analytical results for the studied rod and beam cases is obtained.