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    how to assign the minimum and initial increment size?

    Hi all, I am facing many problems with this module can any one please tell me how to assign the initial and minimum size increments is it depends on the load or things like meshing, geometry, contacts or the boundary conditions. I have tried reducing and increasing the step values but it did't...
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    Bolt Pre tension and joint simulation using ABAQUS/std

    Hello everybody. I am Trying to run the contact analysis of a bolted joint While giving the pretension to the bolts.I have defined the pretension in step 1 using Bolt load and in the second step i have applied the external load using Pressure on one side, and i have a doubt whether i should go...
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    Problem in step

    Hi i am trying to run a analysis of Adhesive bonded aluminum laminates lap joint with a fasteners. for this i have created two separate steps One is for pretension in fasteners and other is for loading at one end of plate, while other is fixed. during the analysis wht i can see in the .sta file...
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    zero contact pressure and zero stress values

    I am trying to run a adhesive bonded aluminum laminate lap joints with a three fastners in it. ***The Element type for adhesive aluminum Plate is C3D8I and for fastners C3D8R. ***Two different steps one for the load and one for the Bolt load since i need to give pretension surface for the...
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    Need Your Help Guys

    I am trying to run a adhesive bonded aluminum laminate lap joints with a three fastners in it. ***The Element type for adhesive aluminum Plate is C3D8I and for fastners C3D8R. ***Two different steps one for the load and one for the Bolt load since i need to give pretension surface for the...
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    INTERACTION ERRORS

    HI all, I am trying to simulate bolted lap joints by using adhesive bonded aluminum laminates and gave interaction properties and all. When I am runing the input file howerver, I get errors of: CONVERGENCE CHECKS FOR EQUILIBRIUM ITERATION 1 AVERAGE FORCE 6.692E-04...
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    Pre tension in a fastener

    how should i mesh a fastener( do i need to do any partitions) and how can i allocate a pre tension surface in bw?

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