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Mixing RBE2,RBE3 to represent bolts and 1 dowel

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JBlack68

Aerospace
May 19, 2015
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I am playing around to model a bolted connection (4 bolts with 1 dowel) attached to a beam. See attached picture.
The beam is attached to the 1 end of zero length cbushs via an RBE3
the other end of the cbushes is attached to a fully grounded master nodes via an RBE2.

I am having trouble with rigid body. The test with no dowel (cbush) works as intended i.e. like a bolt group. The aim is ultimate to transfer the entire shear load to the dowel and have the bolt taking axial load only.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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JXB0809
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=7b7a7fcd-523d-4bc9-8fe3-43317accf012&file=RBE2_3Connection.png
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