I put together a tendon model that calculated reactions at each node in the tendon path including friction in the hopes of recreating the experimental data that alfonso acquired. The model has just one parameter, coefficient of friction, and captures the behavior of varying deflection along the beam. But the dynamic behavior seemed very off, the beam doesn't make it to equilibrium and there is a very slow compression wave that travels down the beam under initial loading.
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Here's a running notebook of my work to perform validation of the dynamic characteristics of the MetaVoxels beam solver. The key questions are:
