Evaluating Sealing Quality in a Bolted Pressure Vessel — Lesson 2

In this lesson, we will learn how to use various contact trackers such as contact pressure, contact status etc. to determine whether or not a bolted pressure vessel has been sealed adequately. We will do a parametric study to perform design iterations by varying the bolt diameter, and see its effect on seal performance.


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Simulation Files

Download the zip file and extract the contents. Follow along with the provided How To Video file. The student version of Ansys simulation software can be downloaded here.