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Focus on: Joints & Connections

NAFEMS Focus on: Joints & Connections

Focus on: Joints & Connections

As most structures involve some sort of jointing or connection, often running into many thousands, or even millions of connections in one individual body, the analyses involved can be among the most difficult an engineer can face. As you can imagine, there has been a significant amount of activity within NAFEMS around these issues, and we've collected some of the resulting information here.

Many of the resources below are available free for you to download, with others accessible exclusively to NAFEMS Memberse-library subscribers, or to buy directly from our website.

We hope you find this brief update useful. If you have any comments, or thoughts on future areas that you'd like to see us focus on in the future, please get in touch at focus@nafems.org

 

Modelling Adhesively Bonded JointsModelling Adhesively Bonded Joints

This extract from the NAFEMS Advanced Workbook of Examples summarises several aspects of the modelling of bonded joints, and is free to download below. You can also download the entire publication from the e-library, or buy the book.

 

Knowledge Base - Analysis of Fabricated Structures

In October 2003, NAFEMS began to publish a series of articles in benchmark magazine, aimed at covering a number of basic FEA principals in a readable and useful format. This “knowledge base” series continued to run over the next seven years, based on the principal that it is always useful to reinforce basic concepts and theories, no matter how advanced the user of the technology has become.

This short article on the analysis of fabricated structures, is free to download at the link below.

NAFEMS members have access to the full series here, and the book can be purchased here

 

Presentations

NAFEMS events provide the engineering analysis community with invaluable opportunities to learn, network and present. We've collected some of the presentations on this topic together, and made them available for download below

Challenges in Developing a Generalized Idealized Fasterner Method

NAFEMS Americas Conference 2016

Free Download

 

Influence of Contacts on Lug Joint Internal Loads & Safety Margin within Assemblies

Seminar - Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Aerospace Industry

Member Download

 

Water Tightness of Polyethylene Flange Joints
 

NAFEMS Nordic Conference 2016

Free Download

 

An Introduction to the Dynamics of Joints

Workshop - Dynamics of Joints

Member Download

Techniques for modelling joints: A review of Static Design Approaches

Workshop - Dynamics of Joints

Free Download


 

 

Practical Modelling of Joints & Connections  - Online Training Course

This 3-session, live online course covers a range of topics, all aimed at structural designers and engineers. The objective of this course is to review the various connection and joint technologies in use, give an overview of the physics involved and show how to successfully implement practical solutions using Finite Element Analysis.

Find out when is the next run of this course:

Full details

 

 

FEM Idealisation of JointsFEM Idealisation of Joints

This document provides a synopsis of a NAFEMS seminar on Idealisation of Joints held in Wiesbaden, Germany, in April 2010 including a summary of the industry sectors that presented information, the scope of information presented and copies of papers presented.

 

 

 

Papers from the NAFEMS World Congress

The NAFEMS World Congress (NWC) is the only major international event dedicated to your community and your technology. Every aspect of analysis, modelling and simulation is addressed, covering numerous industries globally. There’s nothing quite like it.

We've made a selection of NWC papers on composites from previous events available to download below

NWC19 took place in Quebec City, Canada, in June 2019. Visit nafems.org/congress for full details.

 

Material Characterization & Modeling for Simulation of 

Adhesive Joints With Polyurethane Adhesives

NWC15 - San Diego, CA, USA

Free Download

 

 

Influence of Type of Discrete Modelling of Fasteners in FEM Models 

NWC17 - Stockholm, Sweden

Free Download

 

Extending Standard Sizing of Ball Screws to Consider Unequal Load Distributions

NWC15 - San Diego, CA, USA

Free Download

Simulation Of Threaded Fasteners For Ultimate Load Conditions

NWC15 - San Diego, CA, USA

Free Download

Crash Simulation Of Adhesively Bonded Structures

NWC15 - San Diego, CA, USA

Free Download

FEA Study Of A High Strength Stud Failure

NWC15 - San Diego, CA, USA

Free Download



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