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Translational Damper - Simulate viscous damper in mechanical translational systems

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Mechanical Translational Elements

The Translational Damper block represents an ideal mechanical translational viscous damper, described with the following equations:

where

`F`	Force transmitted through the damper
`D`	Damping (viscous friction) coefficient
`v`	Relative velocity
`v_R,v_C`	Absolute velocities of terminals R and C, respectively

The block positive direction is from port R to port C. This means that the force is positive if it acts in the direction from R to C.

Damping coefficient: Damping coefficient, defined by viscose friction. The default value is 100 N/(m/s).

The block has the following ports:

R: Mechanical translational conserving port associated with the damper rod.
C: Mechanical translational conserving port associated with the damper case.