FEA on a Bolted Joint
FEA on a Bolted Joint
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I have currently looking at performing FEA on a system that invloves is basically two peices of metal, that are bolted together in a circular array of 47 bolts.
Does anybody have any advice, web sites or references that may be of use please?
i am hoping to establish the effects on the bolts and the lower section when i load is applied to the upper section.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Phill.
Does anybody have any advice, web sites or references that may be of use please?
i am hoping to establish the effects on the bolts and the lower section when i load is applied to the upper section.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Phill.





RE: FEA on a Bolted Joint
http://www.hexagon.de
If you want to continue with FEA, SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-5585 could be useful. It is titled Fasteners Modeling for MSC.Nastran Finite Element Analysis and was written by people from Boeing and MSC.Software Corporation. You can obtain the paper here:
http://www.sae.org