Well...Brad...I guess you are right with your models. However, I do have problems with the pretension option in ABAQUS when I need to move my bolts with my entire structure. I thought that is the limitation of this option. I do not want to argue with you about this issue and what I mentioned...
Hi:
I have been seccessfully using brick elements in ABAQUS with temperature effect to model bolts. My entire model was a steel structure assembly with concrete which has a total of 60,000 DOFs.
These bolts were modeled using approximately 600 8-node brick elements per bolt. The...
