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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    Just for anyone who may be interested or for future people who may see this post. In December I did a project where we looked at the end connection for an anchor chain on a ship. These are designed to withstand 15% of the ultimate strength of the anchor chain, and fail before 30% of the...
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    Ansys Performance (Not solution speed)

    I am curious if anyone knows what settings I can change into increase the performance of ansys. I do not mean the solution performance, but the performance when updating, changing/added contacts, etc. At the moment I have an assembly with 600+ bolts, 1200+ joints, bonded/frictional contacts...
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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    Would it not be possible to test until failure to verify that it will fail around the desired loading? Thank you, will look those up.
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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    For your project, did you guys do testing afterwards to verify? If so, how close were the tests compared to the calculations? And did you guys use FEM to dimension the bolt or were hand calculations enough? Interesting, thank you for the information.
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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    I don't have a project to tell you about. Are there no books or papers that talk about a component (can be anything) that they designed to fail at a specific load? Are there no examples? Like E720 mentioned shear pins, and I was able to look that up and find data about those specifically. What...
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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    Thanks everyone for your thoughts. dhengr, I asked generally because I don't have a specific example yet. I tried searching on google for any papers or books on the subject, but haven't been able to find anything. That is why I was generally asking where should I start? If there was a fully...
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    Design bracket for failure at a certain load

    Hello all, As the subject line says, I am curious about designing a bracket that will fail at a specific load. At the moment my question is where should I start. When searching around on google I haven't been able to find much on the subject.
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