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stinlin
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I've attached a picture of the problem - I'm NOT looking for a solution, just an explanation.
You can see the dimensions x,y, and z. That box is a detail of the connection at the rod interface. There is a distributed load acting across the lower beam of w lb/ft. Given the allowable shear and normal stresses of the blot and rod respectively, I need to find w.
Again, I don't want a solution to this problem, I want an explanation of how you apply the concept of the distributed load to that angled connecting rod/bolt system. How do the forces go into the components of it? I know that when you're computing internal reactions, you can't find the "center point" of the distributed load, but this is different I guess...
My thoughts were that you can do a moment about the wall point to find a reaction at the joint. With that, you can then determine what forces will be acting at the rod/bolt interface and then you can find what maximum w will cause failure.
Help maybe?
LINK TO IMAGE
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8696/cablejm2.gif
You can see the dimensions x,y, and z. That box is a detail of the connection at the rod interface. There is a distributed load acting across the lower beam of w lb/ft. Given the allowable shear and normal stresses of the blot and rod respectively, I need to find w.
Again, I don't want a solution to this problem, I want an explanation of how you apply the concept of the distributed load to that angled connecting rod/bolt system. How do the forces go into the components of it? I know that when you're computing internal reactions, you can't find the "center point" of the distributed load, but this is different I guess...
My thoughts were that you can do a moment about the wall point to find a reaction at the joint. With that, you can then determine what forces will be acting at the rod/bolt interface and then you can find what maximum w will cause failure.
Help maybe?
LINK TO IMAGE
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8696/cablejm2.gif
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