Assembly modeling - 1D welds 1

[MegaStructures]

I would like to connect the edge of a solid to the face of another solid to represent a weld connection between the two. I would then like to extract the forces required to enforce this attachment in order to analyze the welds by hand.

In FEMAP this can easily be done with a "glued" connection type, but in Abaqus I have not been able to find any documentation from internet searches that shows how to accomplish this.

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[FEA way]

You can use tie constraint for this purpose. It should be the closest equivalent to Femap's glued connection.

 

[oldNail]

Attach the parts with *Tie or merge the nodes but this won't tell you the load transmitted.

You can use Integrated Output to get the total force transmitted by the weld in .odb file. *Section print is similar for .dat file.

If you're post-processing with Abaqus CAE then you could also use Free Body cuts.