I've been looking into modeling fasteners with CFAST or CWELD and trying to do some case studies with these two types of connectors. Can anyone comment on their experience with these two particular connectors/elements?
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I'm trying to model a plate with two c-channels bolted underneath it in Patran/Nastran. The plates and c-channels are modeled with shell elements, and the bolts are modeled using rbe2 with bushing properties in order to extract the bushing forces for bolt analysis. Based on my hand...