July 12, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Nanda Veralla
Ansys Employee

Hello Jack,

Instead of modifying the geometry, you can scope the results to areas of interest. Since, rivets are designed to fail in shear and excluding plate failures, most rivet failures occur on shank. You can scope the results to the face of the shank and use that data for comparsion with analytical data. 

Regards