Joint design

[Paul]

How would you transfer the load, from a blind rivet joint to a metal sheet.

The method to connect nodes are too time consuming, and if you would just put constraints on the part instead of the blind rivet, it wouldn't have the same elasticity as the rivet would ...

The software i would use would be ANSYS ...

How would you do this? i am curious :)


Kindly Paul

[Jorgen]

I know that ABAQUS has specific connector elements that can be used for that purpose. I am not sure, but my guess is that ANSYS has similar capabilities.

Perhaps someone else knows more?

- Jorgen

[Paul]

I know that ABAQUS has specific connector elements that can be used for that purpose. I am not sure, but my guess is that ANSYS has similar capabilities.

Perhaps someone else knows more?

- Jorgen

Yea i just noticed, you need to mesh and then choose target and source element based on there recommendation.