Experimental Evaluation of ANSYS Based Procedure for Bolted Joints

with O-rings
P. B. Godbole and Pankaj D. Mahajan

CHALLENGES TECHNOLOGY USED

Business/Industry Challenge ANSYS Mechanical Version 13

Experimentally evaluating an elegant methodology for FE

analysis of bolted joint with O-rings as sealing agents, without
explicitly modeling the O-ring.

SIMULATION METHODOLOGY BENEFITS and /or VALIDATIONS

Simulation Methodology Used Benefits/Results Achieved

• The absence of explicit simulation of O-ring gives ease in
• The load deflection characteristic of O-ring is indirectly
modeling and analysis without any loss of vital
introduced in simulation through experimental measurements.
information.
• The applicability of approach is experimentally
demonstrated.

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