Linear dynamics cwx 2008

"Composite material damping" specified in the materialproperties assigns the value of damping ratio for the material. Itisn't the damping coefficient, "c" that is in all the structuraldynamics books. It means I can get whatever response I want out ofthe simulation as opposed to a simulation of real life response. dampingshould depend on the mass and stiffness of the system in the formof damping = 1/root(k*m) for a single degree of freedom. So if Iuse a heavier mass, the response at resonance should increasedue to damping decreasing. That doesn't happen unless I also cheatby decreasing DAMP when I increase density. Without cheating,response turns out to be invariant with mass which isn't what Imeasure experimentally.

Uh...so now what? Cheating is fun but then the lightning strikesand I smell bad after.SolidworksSimulation