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*FASTENER PROPERTY
Prescribe mesh-independent fastener properties.

This option is used to prescribe the properties of a fastener interaction. This option must be used in conjunction with the *FASTENER option.

Products: ABAQUS/Standard  ABAQUS/Explicit  

Type: Model data

Level: Part  Part Instance  Assembly  

References:

Required parameter:

NAME

Set this parameter equal to the name of the fastener property.

Optional parameter:

MASS

Set this parameter equal to the additional mass that will be distributed to the fastener nodes.

Data lines to specify the fastener properties: 

First line:

  1. Radius, .

Second line:

  1. First degree of freedom constrained. See “Conventions,” Section 1.2.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual, for a definition of the numbering of degrees of freedom in ABAQUS. If this field is left blank, all degrees of freedom will be constrained.

  2. Last degree of freedom constrained. If this field is left blank, the degree of freedom specified in the first field will be the only one constrained.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to specify constraints for different degrees of freedom. When the ORIENTATION parameter is specified on the associated *FASTENER option, the degrees of freedom are in the specified local system in the initial configuration; otherwise, they are in the default local system. In either case these directions will rotate with the reference node in large-displacement analyses (when the NLGEOM parameter on the *STEP option is set equal to YES).