Introduction

Chapter One
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Welcome!
Welcome to the Advanced Contact and Bolt Pretension
Training Course!
This course covers those contact models that cannot be
readily solved using the Contact Wizard, default contact
settings, and automatic solution control settings.
It also covers a related topic, bolt pretension analysis.
This course is intended for ANSYS users who are already
familiar with the concepts and procedures for iterative
nonlinear analysis, and who have learned how to do simple
contact analysis (topics covered in Basic Structural
Nonlinearities).

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Welcome
This is the second in a series of three training course on
ANSYS nonlinearities:
Basic Structural Nonlinearities (2 days)
Advanced Contact and Bolt Pretension (2 day)
Advanced Structural Nonlinearities (3 days)
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Course Objectives
To teach advanced nonlinear contact analysis procedures,
including the following topics:
Contact classifications
Contact stiffness
Friction
Surface-to-surface, node-to-node, and node-to-surface elements
Multiphysics applications
Bolt pretension
Assembly Contact in AWE
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Course Material
The Training Manual you have is an exact copy of the slides.
Workshop descriptions and instructions are included in the
Workshop Supplement.
Copies of the workshop files are available, upon request,
through your instructor.

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Topics Covered
ANSYS 7.0 offers two different graphical user interfaces
- ANSYS Classical Environment (Traditional Look)
- ANSYS Workbench Environment (DesignSpace Look)












This course will be taught primarily in the Classical Environment.
Contact in AWE will be presented in Chapter 11
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Topics Covered
2. Contact Overview
3. Contact Stiffness
4. Friction
5. Auto Time Stepping
6. Surface-to-Surface Elements
7. Node-to-Node Elements
8. Node-to-Surface Elements
9. Contact Applications in Multiphysics
10. Bolt Pretension
11. Assembly Contact in AWE