Safety (for Fasteners)
Add a Safety subnode under a Fasteners node in order to evaluate the safety margin against failure of the individual fasteners.
Safety
Enter
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The Critical normal force, Fn,max
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The Normal force failure exponent, αn
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The Critical shear force, Fs,max
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The Shear force failure exponent, αs
The failure criterion is assumed to be a power law of the following form
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Simplified Modeling of Fasteners
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Theory for Fasteners
Location in User Interface
Context Menus
Shell > Connections > Fasteners > Safety
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Physics tab with Fasteners node selected in the model tree:
Attributes > Safety