The basketball rim shown is attached to the backboard by four bolts. To tighten the bolts, a pre-load tensile force of 100 lbs is applied to each bolt. A vertical force of 250 lbs is applied to a portion of the rim to simulate the loads that the rim may be subjected to. The lower portion of the backboard is fixed.
In this lesson, you learn the following:
- Defining bolt connectors
- Defining a local contact condition
- Listing the bolt forces