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Simulation of flanged connection
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rickfischer51
Mechanical
I'm not sure what you're asking. It sounds like you want to evaluate a bolted gasketed joint without modeling the bolts, the gasket, or half the joint. Gasket seating stress will be a function of the stiffness of both flanges, bolt stiffness, bolt spacing, etc.
I've never done this before, but it looks like in Workbench you can model the gasket as a 3-d body, and set the stiffness behavior to gasket. You can apply bolt loads with a bolt pretension object inserted with the rest of your boundary conditions.
Rick Fischer
Principal Engineer
Argonne National Laboratory
I've never done this before, but it looks like in Workbench you can model the gasket as a 3-d body, and set the stiffness behavior to gasket. You can apply bolt loads with a bolt pretension object inserted with the rest of your boundary conditions.
Rick Fischer
Principal Engineer
Argonne National Laboratory
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