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the contacts between the bolt and the end-plate and column flange serves as a boundary condition.<br />

Excessive elongation of the bolts during the loading reduces the pre-tension force, which consequently<br />

reduced the boundary, degree of freedom, to zero. Using the hard contact on the column side of the bolt<br />

will assure a constant contact, boundary condition, between the bolts and other element and eliminates<br />

the numerical errors.<br />

Master surfaces of the contacts pair represent the surface of column flange, T-stubs flange, bolt-<br />

head, bolt-shank, washer. The slave surface is defined as the surface interfacing with the master surface.<br />

The master surface in general should have finer mesh. The automated “find contact pair” option of<br />

ABAQUS 6-10.1 is used to define the contacts and constrains. This function is a build in commend in<br />

ABAQUS software which find all the contact pairs based in the manually defined criteria by the operator<br />

and assigns the master/slave surface automatically.<br />

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