Bolted Connections

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Juan posted two good examples here:

Pretension shear/tensile resistance

I think I didn’t read this whole thread carefully enough, so I’ll try to fix what I said. It seems I never tried to run a pretension analysis beyond separation or at least didn’t take much care about the results since usually separation is a failure condition, so I updated the boltpipe4 example, this time in prepomax with axial load in a second step: it is necessary to edit the calculix keywords as shown in the picture, do it after creating the pretension load so you know the node id (seems I al…

He found a way to do it with load fixing the node which I couldn’t find the way to make it work for this particular problem.