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Calculating ScrewConnections

In this tutorial, you can calculate a screw connectionusing the stand-alone screw calculation function inAutoCAD

Mechanical 6.

Starting the screw calculation

Selecting and specifying a screw

Selecting and specifying a nut

Selecting and specifying a washer

Specifying the plate geometryand properties

Specifying the contact area

Specifying the loads andmoments

Specifying the settlement

Specifying the tightening

Creating and inserting the resultblock

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Chapter 17Calculating Screw Connections

Key Terms

TermDefinition

axial forceA force parallel to the screw axiscontact areaThe touching surfaces of the plates which are effective for the calculationsafety factorThe safety factor is the ratio of effective load and safe loadshear forceA force perpendicular to the screw axisstressA force or pressure on a part. Stress is the force per area

Methods for Calculating Screws

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Methods for Calculating Screws

The Screw Calculation provides two different ways to calculate a screwconnection:

Stand-alone calculation: All data and properties are specified by the user.

Calculation of an existing screw connection: The user selects an existingscrew connection to be calculated. All geometrical and standard-relateddata is taken from the screw connection and cannot be edited.In this exercise, we use the stand-alone Screw Calculation. The stand-alonecalculation enables you to calculate a screw connection without any prereq-uisites. You can specify the screw connection in detail (material, geometric,load, settlement and tightening properties). In this exercise, you are providedwith the drawing of a screw calculation. Some values will be selected fromtables, some will be entered manually, and some will be taken directly fromthe drawing.Open the initial drawing.

To open a drawing1

Open the file

tut_ex19

in the

acadm\tutorial

folder.

File

➤

Open

Command

OPENThe drawing contains the representation of a screw connection.Save your file under a different name or to a different directory to preservethe original tutorial file.