I have a question regarding the determination of mass and stiffness damping parameters of Rayleigh Damping. In Plaxis, I need to determine the target frequencies to calculate the mass and stiffness damping parameters. In the Plaxis manual, it is written that the the first target frequency is first natural frequency of the soil deposit and the second target frequency is the predominant frequency of the input motion over the natural frequency of the soil. So if my input motion is a sinusoidal harmonic motion with a frequency of 100 Hz, so the predominant frequency is 100 Hz? Or do I just enter the first frequency as 1 Hz and the second target frequency is 100 Hz? Thank you.

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