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Help on Distribution of Bolt Load in 3D

Submitted by ruzbeh on

I am kind of new in computational simulation except for CFD. I have a cylinder which has a flange around it and a lid on top. Lid and the flange are connected by bolts and sealed with an o ring. Is it possible to simulate the load distribution around the flange due to tightening the bolts? Which package is most suitable for this comsol or Abaqus? I want to do simple simulation just to check whether the odd number of bolts are able to distribute load uniformly around the flange.

 

Thanks in advance.

Rigid Body Dynamics. Need help.

Submitted by ruzbeh on

I'm having problem with the following problem. The encircled portion of the figure is giving me trouble. I am getting confused on how to correlate it with reference frame oxyz. please help.

what is the significance of distance r for calculating angular velocity of the reference axis oxyz?

 
I need to find out the components of the absolute acceleration of O along ox,oy& oz.