Bolt Contact
Bolt Contact
(OP)
When modeling a bolt inserted into a hole, what is the "best" method to handling the contact if the bolt and the part are both solid models meshed in Workbench 10.0? For this particular case the bolt consists of a head, shaft and thread. I am concerned with the stress within the bolt (preload included) mainly in the vicinity of the thread. The bolts are not fully inserted into a hole and some of these bolts are shearing near the thread where the bolt is exposed. Thanks.





RE: Bolt Contact
bye.
samuele
RE: Bolt Contact
If you're using Workbench, then you should automatically have contact defined between the threads. If not, you can open up the contact slider tolerance which will allow you to auto-generate contact pairs between faces further away from each other.
Hope this helps,
Doug