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Spring-Damper Force (SPDP)

Returns a force or torque applied by a specified spring-damper force on one or two bodies affected by the spring-damper force. Note that this refers to forces defined by the Adams Solver SPRINGDAMPER statement, not the force elements created in Adams View via the ribbon button termed “spring” and “torsion spring”.

Format

SPDP (Spring-Damper Force Name, On This Body, Force Component, Along/About Axes)

Arguments

 
Spring-Damper Force Name
(Required) Spring-damper force for which the force is measured.
On This Body
(Required) Body on which the force is measured.
The legal values are:
■0 = forces and torques on the first body, at the I marker
■1 = forces and torques on the second body, at the J marker
Force Component
(Required) Force or torque component you want to measure.
The legal values are:
■Fm = 1 = force magnitude
■Fx = 2 = x component of the force
■Fy = 3 = y component of the force
■Fz = 4 = z component of the force
■Tm = 5 = torque magnitude
■Tx = 6 = x component of the torque
■Ty = 7 = y component of the torque
■Tz = 8 = z component of the torque
Along/About Axes
(Optional) Coordinate system marker in which the results are measured.
To have your results measured in the global coordinate system, do one of the following:
■If you're entering your function through the Assist dialog box, leave the Along/About Axes text box empty.
■If you're entering your function directly in the function text box, enter a 0.

Example

The following function returns the z component of the force vector acting on the first body (at the I marker) of .model_1.spring_31, measured along the z-axis of the global coordinate system:
SPDP(.model_1.spring_15, 0, 4, 0)
Learn more about force in object functions.