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Is it possible to apply bolt pretension to a beam in Workbench Mechanical?

Tagged: 14, bolt-pretension, Mechanical (f. Simulation), modeling-and-meshing, structural-mechanics
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:34 am
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      In general, bolt pretension can be applied to beam elements, but there must be more than 1 element along the length. One cannot apply bolt pretension to Beam Connections in Workbench Mechanical since these internally create a single beam element. However, one can define bolt pretension loads to line bodies created in DesignModeler.

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