Tubular shaft to perpendicular flange connection.

The tubular drive shaft, Fig 2, is to have an

end designed that can bolt onto the vertical face of a coupling, with a number of evenly spaced
bolts on a PCD (Pitch Circle Diameter) of 110 mm. You are to design and analyse possible
transformations in shape between the tube and a flange. Initially you may take the flange and tube
to be one component, but later you may consider them as separate parts and the problem associated
with connecting them. To apply FEA analysis you may fix the bolt holes and apply torque to the far
right end of the tubular shaft. The tube diameter, its wall thickness and the PCD of the bolt holes on
the flange, cannot be changed, all else can. Endeavour to come up with a shape that exhibits near
uniform stress distribution.

Fig 1 tubular driveshaft and flange