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Ultimate strength of single shear bolted connections with curling

Dec 3, 2023
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Hi. Please help or at least give hints on how to resolve the following warnings and errors. I am using GUI. Thank you in advance! I have attached the input file in .txt format.

Warning Messages:
The general contact domain for modeling contact interactions in Abaqus/Standard has double-sided facets. Initial contact adjustments for resolving gaps and overclosures when a surface with double-sided facets is paired with any surface having double-sided facets may be incorrect. Similarly, adjustments for double-sided surfaces crossing each other may be incorrect and no additional warnings or error messages will be issued. In all these cases, we recommend using single-sided surfaces under *CONTACT INITIALIZATION ASSIGNMENT to handle initial adjustments more precisely and avoid possible convergence problems.
112 nodes have been adjusted. The nodes have been identified in node set WarnNodeAdjust.

Error Messages:
THERE ARE NO RIGID REFERENCE NODE ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACE General_Contact_Faces_4

THERE ARE NO RIGID REFERENCE NODE ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACE General_Contact_Faces_5

THERE ARE NO RIGID REFERENCE NODE ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACE General_Contact_Faces_6

THERE ARE NO RIGID REFERENCE NODE ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACE General_Contact_Faces_7

Analysis Input File Processor exited with an error.

New Issues:
The general contact domain for modeling contact interactions in Abaqus/Standard has double-sided facets. Initial contact adjustments for resolving gaps and overclosures when a surface with double-sided facets is paired with any surface having double-sided facets may be incorrect. Similarly, adjustments for double-sided surfaces crossing each other may be incorrect and no additional warnings or error messages will be issued. In all these cases, we recommend using single-sided surfaces under *CONTACT INITIALIZATION ASSIGNMENT to handle initial adjustments more precisely and avoid possible convergence problems.

112 nodes have been adjusted. The nodes have been identified in node set WarnNodeAdjust.

Node set assembly_bolt-1_bolt-refpt_ has no members and will be ignored. Nodes defined in this set may have been deleted because they were not connected to any elements.

I will post the new input files if anyone is interested.
 

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