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Modeling & Meshing

Modeling & Meshing

Can bolt pretension be used with large deflection (NLGEOM,ON)?

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      Not unless the rotation of the bolt axis is small (a few degrees.) The bolt pretension is applied with constraint equations that are written based on the original bolt axis and not updated during solution.