Bolted Connection | Eccentrically Loaded | Safety Factor | FEA for beginners | SolidWorks Simulation

This tutorial is the beginning of the connector series. Today we will go over bolts connection safety factors and finding critical bolts using the connector feature in SolidWorks.
Hope you enjoy it!
Learning Outcomes from this video:
• Setup assembly for bolted connection simulation
• FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
• Critical load and safety factor
• Stress and safety factor
• Read and modify results
• Presenting FEA results in a desired format
Thank you for watching! Enjoy!
/ @cadcaelab
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[@romanmoreno9665]

Hello, why you didn't specify preload? Here bolts work as a pin.

[@The.Talent]

M16 bolts have a pitch of 2, which means 1 thread every 2 mm, or 0.5 threads per mm, not 2 threads/mm as shown.
Very helpful video!

[@fra2025]

wow! thanks a lot!

[@cadcaelab]

You're welcome!

[@fra2025]

​Sorry, ​@@cadcaelab, Is It necessary to suppress coincident mate before starting simulation?

[@三好伸一]

Hi, I was looking for how to do the analysis and came across this site.
It is very informative. I would like to ask you one question. At 12:41, it says FA=FB=21.0KN, FC=FD=14.8KN. How do you get these values in a normal calculation?
If you don't mind, could you please tell me the equation?

[@med7756]

Hello shouldn't the load be concentrated on the halfway distance of the 15 thickness? If so how you put load of 16 Kn totally distributed along the edge.that means that you should multiply this uniform 16 Kn load by 15 to get the equivalent point centered load. Am I correct?

[@emrecan.daglii]

Hi, why we see bending moment result on bolt? We check bolts as per code (EN-AISC etc.) and i cannot see bending moment check there? Could one explain it ?

[@wilsonyucra7979]

de que libro son los ejercicios por favor

[@cadcaelab]

Shigley's mechanical engineering design 10th edition.

[@elliotmadison1928]

I wirk through this entire thing and you put the force on a face that I don't have because of how you make the parts? Like why would you not show how to do this the other way?

[@三好伸一]

Hi, I was looking for how to do the analysis and came across this site.
It is very informative. I would like to ask you one question. At 12:41, it says FA=FB=21.0KN, FC=FD=14.8KN. How do you get these values in a normal calculation?
If you don't mind, could you please tell me the equation?