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Modal Analysis - Cosmos

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billdicke

Mechanical
May 8, 2007
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Hi guys,

I am wondering, do the displacements that COSMOS reports in a modal analysis real? The values I am getting seem to be absurd. Is there a scaling factor that is used? Or is the only purpose of these analyses to determine the frequencies?

Thanks in advance.

Bill
 
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Hi,
what is displayed is the eigenvector, normalized to mass.

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