The attachment shows the geometry. The threaded rod is about 30 mm long and 8mm major diameter. The rod is anchored by meshing with the thread in the lower plate and the thread in the nut.
The threaded rod is first twisted into the thread of the plate. Then the nut is twisted onto the threaded...
Thanks for answering my questions rb1957.
"the length of the bolt that is being strained by preload ... so from the inner face of the head to the inner face of the nut."
My situation does not have a head because I am using a threaded rod and one nut and one washer. This is why I dont...
The larger plate at the bottom of the picture is threaded but it is modeled as non threaded (see attachment)http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=6a277084-ee16-4397-b7c8-2e8c56cea2b6&file=assembly.jpg
I am using ANSYS workbench 14.5 to model a threaded rod, a washer and a nut, which clamps together two plates. One of the plates is threaded. The threaded rod is threaded the whole length of the rod.
I want to simplify the analysis by not including the thread so I modeled the rod as a cylinder...
