Deformable bolt modeling with initial stress

Naresh
Naresh Altair Community Member
edited October 2023 in Community Q&A

Hello All,

 

Any reference model available to explain representation of solid bolt in detail.

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Answers

  • Guilherme_Brandao
    Guilherme_Brandao
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2023

    Hello Naresh Kini,

    There are a few articles in Altair Community about this topic. Would you please take a look and see if it helps?

    Pretension with /PRELOAD on solid bolt - Preload on solid bolt

    Using /STATE to initialize elements in Radioss - Initializing element states in Radioss

    3D Bolt Pretensioning - Video showing the workflow of pretensioning in HyperMesh

    Radioss solid mesh Bolt preloading with 1D spring element - Bolt pretension using spring elements

    Kind Regards,

    Guilherme.

     

     

     

  • Naresh
    Naresh Altair Community Member
    edited October 2023

    Hello Naresh Kini,

    There are a few articles in Altair Community about this topic. Would you please take a look and see if it helps?

    Pretension with /PRELOAD on solid bolt - Preload on solid bolt

    Using /STATE to initialize elements in Radioss - Initializing element states in Radioss

    3D Bolt Pretensioning - Video showing the workflow of pretensioning in HyperMesh

    Radioss solid mesh Bolt preloading with 1D spring element - Bolt pretension using spring elements

    Kind Regards,

    Guilherme.

     

     

     

    Hello Guilherme,

    Thank you for the quick reply. Do we have a examples or similar presentation to represent deformable bolt with initial stress? This representation used to give very good correlation in LS Dyna and I would like to mimic same in radioss. It will be helpful if I get some tutorial to do same in Radioss.

     

    Thanks & Regards,

    Naresh Kini

  • Guilherme_Brandao
    Guilherme_Brandao
    Altair Employee
    edited October 2023

    Hello Guilherme,

    Thank you for the quick reply. Do we have a examples or similar presentation to represent deformable bolt with initial stress? This representation used to give very good correlation in LS Dyna and I would like to mimic same in radioss. It will be helpful if I get some tutorial to do same in Radioss.

     

    Thanks & Regards,

    Naresh Kini

    Hello Naresh Kini,

    I don't have any article or presentation about this modeling, but I can share with you one model (please see attached).

    The model is divided into two steps:

    1. Pretension

    In this step, only a pressure load is applied on the bolt (force can also be applied), and the element state is stored. With the element states stored for the bolt, one can import it in HyperMesh and apply the load case. For this step, refer to the article "Using /STATE to initialize elements in Radioss" I shared earlier. The process is the same here.

    2. Displacement

    After importing the *.sta in HyperMesh, one can apply the second case with the pretensioned bolt. For this model, an imposed displacement is applied to two opposite edges of the solid plate. As you can see, at the beginning of the second step, the bolt shows the initial stresses from step 1:

    image

    Simulation end:

    image

    I hope this helps.

    Kind Regards,

    Guilherme.

  • Naresh
    Naresh Altair Community Member
    edited October 2023

    Hello Naresh Kini,

    I don't have any article or presentation about this modeling, but I can share with you one model (please see attached).

    The model is divided into two steps:

    1. Pretension

    In this step, only a pressure load is applied on the bolt (force can also be applied), and the element state is stored. With the element states stored for the bolt, one can import it in HyperMesh and apply the load case. For this step, refer to the article "Using /STATE to initialize elements in Radioss" I shared earlier. The process is the same here.

    2. Displacement

    After importing the *.sta in HyperMesh, one can apply the second case with the pretensioned bolt. For this model, an imposed displacement is applied to two opposite edges of the solid plate. As you can see, at the beginning of the second step, the bolt shows the initial stresses from step 1:

    image

    Simulation end:

    image

    I hope this helps.

    Kind Regards,

    Guilherme.

    Thank you Guilherme