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    Best technique for incorporating screws into a structure for a basic stress analysis

    Bolted joints (or "screws") can be modeled with Abaqus connector elements (basically springs that connect the things being fastened together) with stiffnesses equivalent to the actual joint. There is a lot of literature out there on how to calculate these stiffnesses. After you run your...
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    Laminate Equivalent Properties in Abaqus

    Can Abaqus calculate the Laminate Equivalent Properties of a shell composite layup? It's really easy to do this in FEMAP, but I haven't figured out how to do this in Abaqus yet. Thanks, Victor

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