Simulation shear failure of two steel plates with bolt connection in Abaqus

In this tutorial, the Simulation shear failure of two steel plates with bolt connection in Abaqus has been investigated. The steel plates are modeled as a three-dimensional solid part The bolts with different sizes are modeled as a three-dimensional solid part. You can see a figure of the assembled part at below

The steel material with elastic-plastic behavior is used. The ductile and shear damage criterion to predict damaged zone and failure are used. The ductile criterion is a phenomenological model for predicting the onset of damage due to nucleation, growth, and coalescence of voids. The shear criterion is a phenomenological model for predicting the onset of damage due to shear band localization. The dynamic explicit step was used to model dynamic load as tension at the end of the upper plate. The surface to surface contact with contact property is used among all interaction domain. The fixed boundary condition is used for the end of the bottom steel plate and displacement with a smooth amplitude to the end of the upper plate. To have a better mesh, some partitions are used for each bolt and the should be fine and proper to get the correct failure mode and shape

After the simulation, all results such as damage, failure, stress, strain,…..are achievable. The upper plate is failed during applying load and it completely damaged. You can see some figures for the results below

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