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I’m working on an assembly with many bolted connections, it is easily performed using NX, NX enables me to easily specify the bold-head and nut diameters, and adjust the mesh to have notes along the bolt-head and nut circles.<\/p>\n

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I want to model bolted connections using the “beam” connection in Ansys Mechanical 2019R3. When I set the “Behavior” to <\/a>“Deformable”, the following fields appear for each end of the beam connection: “Pinball Region”, “Material”, “Diameter”. So my questions are:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>(1) Is the beam connection in Ansys 2019R3 a correct means of modeling bolts?<\/p>\n

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(2) Assuming the answer is yes, What are the “Pinball Region”? Should I set them to the diameters of bolt-head and nut?<\/p>\n

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(3) There are 3 beam materials and diameters! One for the beam connection, and one for both ends! Is this a bug in Ansys?<\/p>\n

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