Calibration of Maxwell Material's Issue

[rmandok]

Recently I asked how to model Viscous Damping and I had been directed to this example:
[url]http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... _Material/[/url]
I read the explanation of this example and in this example it is discussed that element "forceBeamColumn" should be used for viscous element.
But when I downloaded the example, "nonlinearBeamColumn" element is used in tcl files.
Now I am wondering which element is more appropriate to define Viscous damping, "forceBeamColumn" or "nonlinearBeamColumn"?

[linguan118]

They're the same to me.

[vesna]

If you look at the manual you will see that to define force-based element you can use "forceBeamColumn" or "nonlinearBeamColumn".