{"id":369636,"date":"2024-06-03T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/large-assembly-bolted-joints\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:07:34","slug":"large-assembly-bolted-joints","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/large-assembly-bolted-joints\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Assembly Bolted Joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a relativly large assembly that I&#8217;m running through Modal, Shock, and Vibration. Due to the size the fasteners were replaced with beam elements but I&#8217;m slightly worried that I&#8217;m not properly capturing the joint stiffness since I have metal to metal contact with preload.<\/p>\n<p>Without doing the full joint stiffness is there a good way to simulate the surface to surface interaction by adding in bolt pre-tension or frictionless contact or something?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have searched the best I can but it seems like most examples have a gasket that allows the 2 flanges to move independantly instead of sharing the load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-369636","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-bolt-pretension","topic-tag-bolted-connection-1","topic-tag-frictionless-contact-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["350291","88"],"_bbp_author_ip":["184.24.96.177"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["239"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["369636"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["88","350291"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["371763"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["371763"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-07-13 06:28:25"]},"test":"dustin-sondenaangc-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/369636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/369636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}