Hello everybody,

I am trying to find out the external efforts that are taken by the virtual bolts (20mm diameter) on the 3 directions so I can later find the normal effort and the tangential one (for the bolts which will help me find out if the plates are sliding or peeling).

To do so, I modelised 2 plates on contact (those plates have a thickness of 8mm) with 4 virtual bolts with a diameter of 20mm (see attached).

I made a contact property between those 2 plates (shear coefficient of 0.15 and no separation allowed), I then applied a shear force of 200kN and a preload of the virtual bolts (using a torque) of 210 N.m .

Then, for the output request, I asked the history output (for the 4 virtual bolts) of all of the forces in those bolts.

My question is the following:

Does the 2016X version of the 3DExperience (and SIMULIA) allow to output what I want? If so, what output allows to access those results?

Another question I may have is:

In entry we have a specified tightening torque for those loads, is it the "Bolt Torque" in the Structural Scenario Creation in the "Loads" part?

Thank you for your help