Hello,
I am running a static analysis on an assembly that has some bolted joints. In addition to the stresses in the parts I am interested in the forces in the preloaded bolts to make sure they are not overloaded. All the bolts have a fairly high safety factor and I am not overly concerned about them, however....
I was also asked to determine if there is joint separation between the bolted parts. Is it sufficient to look at the axial force in the bolt and assume that the joint will not separate from the load? The assumption is that because the bolts are not failing that the joints also must not be separating.
Is it that easy or I making some glaring error?
I believe that I need to be able to check the forces between the bolted parts but I'm not sure if there is a way to do that in the simulation. Maybe there is another way that you've used to check this? Run the analysis without preload and then compare forces in the bolt to the preloaded results?
Thanks,
I am running a static analysis on an assembly that has some bolted joints. In addition to the stresses in the parts I am interested in the forces in the preloaded bolts to make sure they are not overloaded. All the bolts have a fairly high safety factor and I am not overly concerned about them, however....
I was also asked to determine if there is joint separation between the bolted parts. Is it sufficient to look at the axial force in the bolt and assume that the joint will not separate from the load? The assumption is that because the bolts are not failing that the joints also must not be separating.
Is it that easy or I making some glaring error?
I believe that I need to be able to check the forces between the bolted parts but I'm not sure if there is a way to do that in the simulation. Maybe there is another way that you've used to check this? Run the analysis without preload and then compare forces in the bolt to the preloaded results?
Thanks,