Structural Connections

Discovery supports a number of connection types which can be added as structural conditions, including contacts, joints, and springs.

In addition to the ability to manually add a contact, Discovery automatically detects and defines bonded contacts when you specify a Structural simulation. These bonded contacts can be reviewed in the Bonded Contacts (default) review tool.

In addition, once you've run a simulation, you can run the Connection Assessment Tool. The Connection Assessment Tool cycles through the connections and shows whether they pass or fail the factor of safety for the connection based on specified shear and tensile limit values, or whether they’re borderline.