Hi,
I'm a little confused by bolt connectors, they wont report reactionloads unless you activate strength data, but the bolt itself (dia.material, tpi etc) is irrelevant to the load placed on it.
What I want to know is the reaction force seen at a bolt hole, butIf I create a simple experiment (a 10m long beam bolted at each endwith a single bolt to a fixed plate, and then apply a 10kn torgueat the beam center, I should see a reaction force at each bolt of1000n (since each bolt is 5m from torque access. This is prettysimple math. But the bolt connector reports an axial load of 225knat each bolt! This is off by a factor of 225. So, I'm sure (I hope)that cosmos is doing the math right - but it seems I'm not askingthe right question?
Any insight here?SolidworksSimulation
I'm a little confused by bolt connectors, they wont report reactionloads unless you activate strength data, but the bolt itself (dia.material, tpi etc) is irrelevant to the load placed on it.
What I want to know is the reaction force seen at a bolt hole, butIf I create a simple experiment (a 10m long beam bolted at each endwith a single bolt to a fixed plate, and then apply a 10kn torgueat the beam center, I should see a reaction force at each bolt of1000n (since each bolt is 5m from torque access. This is prettysimple math. But the bolt connector reports an axial load of 225knat each bolt! This is off by a factor of 225. So, I'm sure (I hope)that cosmos is doing the math right - but it seems I'm not askingthe right question?
Any insight here?SolidworksSimulation
