Defining Connection Failure

You can define connection failure behavior for one or more components of relative motion.

The failure criteria might depend on the motions of the available components of relative motion and on the forces/moments in both available and constrained components of relative motion. The failure occurs when any of the criteria are met.

You can define multiple behavior definitions. For example, you can define individual behaviors for the different components of relative motion.

Before you begin:
  • Create a new connection or edit an existing connection. To create a connection, see Defining Connectors.
  • In the connection dialog box, click to open the Behaviors editor.
See Also
About Connectors
  1. In the left pane of the Behaviors editor, click next to Failure and then click on the new Failure definition.
    The Failure behavior editor appears on the right pane of the Behaviors editor.
  2. From the Force/Moment options, select Fx, Fy, Fz, Mx, My, Mz to specify which components of relative motion contribute to the failure criteria.
  3. From the Release options, select one of the following:
    OptionDescription
    All Releases all components of relative motion when any of the failure criteria are satisfied.
    Fx, Fy, Fz, Mx, My, or Mz Specifies a single component of relative motion to release when any of the failure criteria are satisfied.
  4. To define failure criteria based on motion, enter values for the Position lower limit and Position upper limit.
  5. To define failure criteria based on forces/moments, enter values for the Force/Moment lower limit and Force/Moment upper limit.