LAB ASSIGMENT #5 New Mexico State University

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

Spring 2016

The dimension of the support’s geometry and the wall’s geometry are:

Support

Wall

Steps of FEA:

1. Building up 3D beam model

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2. Defining the material for the Support and the wall as Alloy steel then define the wall as
rigid body.

- Support_1
- Wall

3. Defining contact between the support and the wall as No Penetration.

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Spring 2016

4. Defining the bolted connection as counterbore bolt and nut for the four bolts.

1 3

4
2
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5. Defining fixed geometry at the wall

6. Defining force
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7. Meshing, using fine mesh to get accurate result

8. Result
- Displacement
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- Stress

9. Bolt Forces List

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Calculation
1. Calculating bolt diameter from FEM result

- The greatest axial load on bolt is 1381 N (bolt 3)

Axial strees on bolt 3:

= 8,286 mm2

- The greatest shear force on bolt is 433,45 N (bolt 4)

Shear strees on bolt 4:

= =

= 4,5 mm2

We choose the greatest to make sure the factor factor of safty 3. So we use bolt
2
with mm . From standard bolt’s table we choose bolt with ≥ 8,286
2
mm , and we get bolt with 4mm in nominal diameter.
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2. Manual Calculation

1,3

2,4

- Axial force bolt 1 and 3 can be solve with equilibrium moment equation:
R1,3 x 60 = 1000 x 180
R1,3 = 1500 N

- The greatest axial load on bolt is 1381 N (bolt 3)

Axial strees on bolt 3:

=
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= 9 mm2

From standard bolt’s table we choose bolt with ≥ 9 mm2, and we get bolt with 5
mm in nominal diameter.

3. Comparing the standard bolt diameter FE and manually (classical result).

Diff nominal diameter(%) = x 100% = x 100% = 20%

This result is quite large . but the actual results are calculated based on the difference
.

Diff (%) = x 100% = x 100% = 7,93%