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How to find ultimate strength and fracture sequence of bolted connections to thin-walledcarbon steel

Dec 3, 2023
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Hi everyone,
I am running a static simulation in Abaqus for my undergraduate thesis. Right now, I'm trying to validate my model and my goal is to analyze the ultimate strength and fracture sequence of a single shear bolted connection in thin-walled carbon steel using GUI (I'm very new to the software and I was told to use GUI). My model consists of:
  • Test plate (elastic-plastic material, bilinear stress-strain)
  • Pulling plate & bolts (modeled as elastic)
  • General contact with "Hard" normal behavior & friction coefficient = 0.45
But my simulation is not running properly. I get no result from my model. Now I am extremely confused about how the analysis is supposed to be done. Can anyone please check my model and tell me where I'm going wrong
P.S. I'm really sorry about the condition of attached file. At this point, I'm scared to change even a single thing.
 

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