Rivets

[Massim0]

good evening to all, I have to do a simulation in femap where I have to represent two longheroni connected to each other by riveting: How do I represent the link provided by the rivets?

I tried to make a rbe2 and providing a bond, but it doesn't convince me: are there ideas?

 

[Onda]

you have to use the cfast elements of nastran, but I use patran and do not know how to put them in femap

 

[Massim0]

Instead, I just need a femap representation of the rivet or the bolt... I have seen that there is also a demo on the site of the siemens, but little is seen on the commands used :

 

[Onda]

I can't help you!

 

[guly84]

the connection of 2 longheroni via rivet is usually made with a knot bar. you have to combine the mesh because the bar must be perpendicular