BUSHING

Connection type BUSHING provides a bushing-like connection between two nodes. It cannot be used in two-dimensional or axisymmetric analyses.

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Description

Connection type BUSHING.

Connection type BUSHING does not constrain any components of relative motion and uses local orientation definitions equivalent to combining connection types PROJECTION CARTESIAN and PROJECTION FLEXION-TORSION.

Limitation

In Abaqus/Explicit, if the total flexion angle vanishes, connector motion cannot be applied to the flexion component of motion.

Summary

BUSHING
Basic, assembled, or complex: Assembled
Kinematic constraints: None
Constraint force and moment output: None
Available components: u1,u2,u3,ur1,ur2,ur3
Kinetic force and moment output: f1,f2,f3,m1,m2,m3
Orientation at a: Required
Orientation at b: Optional
Connector stops: l1minxl1max,
  l2minyl2max,
  l3minzl3max
  θ1minα1θ1max,
  θ2minα2θ2max,
  θ3minβθ3max
Constitutive reference lengths and angles: l1ref,l2ref,l3ref
  θ1ref,θ2ref,θ3ref
Predefined friction parameters: None
Contact force for predefined friction: None