DESIGN OF MEMBERS SUBJECTED TO DIRECT LOADS

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Learning Outcomes
1. Analyze types of stress in directly loaded bearing structures.
2. Design directly loaded structural members to function safely.
3. Calculate deformation and stress in axially loaded members.

Purpose
This assignment tests skills to perform safe design of members subjected to direct loading. The
different types of direct loading encountered are axial, shear and bearing loads. The design
should ensure safety in terms of the developed stresses and the resulting deformations.
Deformations and stresses resulting from thermal loading should also be accounted for. This
assignment tests the overall comprehension of modules 1, 2 and 3.

Instructions
1. Solve the assigned problems.
2. The assignment is to be completed individually.
3. The assignment is to be completed outside of class time.
4. Submit the neatly written assignment on engineering paper. Clearly specify the given data
and the requirements, as well as any assumptions you made. Neat sketches, wherever
appropriate, would help in problem solving. Show all your work steps.
5. The due date of the assignment is Monday Oct 2nd .

Marking Criteria:
A complete solution of the assignment is reached once all the requirements are successfully
solved. Marking will be based on your approach and methodology to problem solving as well as
the calculation of the correct answers, along with appropriate units.

1 School of M & A, EMTL 300: Mechanics of materials, Modules # 1, 2, 3.

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Questions
1. For the winch shown in the figure, the boom AB is supported by the winch cable BC that has an
allowable normal stress 𝜎𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 = 25 𝑘𝑠𝑖. The winch is capable to slowly lift a maximum load of 5000
lbs. as 𝜽 changes from 20o to 40o.
a. Determine the smallest acceptable size of the cable.
b. Calculate the max normal stress in boom AB if it is made of structural steel ASTM A36 and
has a rectangular cross section of 4” by 2”. The pin diameter is 1”. Determine the design
factor, Is it acceptable?
c. Calculate the minimum acceptable diameter of the pin at A if it is made of SAE 1141
CD steel
d. For the calculated diameter of the pin at A, calculate the bearing stress on the pin. Is it
acceptable?

2. The two faces of the clamp shown in the figure are 270 mm apart when the two-steel tie-rods
connecting them are unloaded. Force P is applied to separate the two faces of the clamp so that an
aluminum 2014-T4 rod having a length of 271 mm and a diameter of 28 mm can be inserted. Each of
the tie rods has a diameter of 12 mm and a thread of M12x1.25 are made of SAE 1041 WQT 900.
a. Calculate the force P that must be applied to insert the aluminum rod.
b. After rod insertion, the applied force is released, calculate:
i. The axial stress in the tie rods and in the aluminum rod
ii. The deformation in the tie rods and in the aluminum rod
iii. The design factor for aluminum and steel. Are they acceptable if it is static loading.
c. For the assembly of part (b), the nuts are turned ¼ turn, calculate:
i. The axial stress in the tie rods and in the aluminum rod
ii. The deformation in the tie rods and in the aluminum rod
iii. The design factor for aluminum and steel. Are they acceptable.

2 School of M & A, EMTL 300: Mechanics of materials, Modules # 1, 2, 3.

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3. A short column made of structural steel ASTM A36 standard wide-flange section is used to support
the floor beam of a building as shown in the figure. Each floor beam (A and B) transmits a force F of
50 kips to the column through standard steel angle L 4x4x1/2. The angles have lengths equal to the
flange width of the W-shape column, and they are welded to it.
a. Use the AISC standards, select the lightest wide-flange shape that will support the loads.
b. Calculate the shear stress in the welds between the angles and the column.
c. Calculate the bearing stress on the angles.
d. Instead of welding, the angles are bolted to the column flanges using two bolts per flange,
each is 1 “diameter and made from SAE 1040 CD.
i. Calculate the bearing stress in the bolts. Is it acceptable?
ii. Calculate the shear stress in the bolts. Is it acceptable if the load is static. If not
determine the minimum acceptable bolt diameter.

4. Two bars are supported by rigid supports and are separated by a gap of 0.7 mm at initial
temperature of 20oC. One bar is 2 m long, 12 mm diameter, and is made of SAE 4140 OQT 1100,
and the other is 1.2 m long, 10 mm diameter, and is made of Aluminum 2014-T4.
a. At what temperature would they touch?
b. Calculate the deformation in each bar at the temperature calculated in (a).
c. If the temperature is increased by 50oC above the temperature at which they touch:
i. Calculate the stress in each bar.
ii. What would be the design factor? Is it acceptable if the heating bars are repeatedly
heated?
iii. Calculate the compressive deformation in each bar.

3 School of M & A, EMTL 300: Mechanics of materials, Modules # 1, 2, 3.

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