A plate is attached to a channel with three identical carbon-steel bolts as shown. Permissible shear yield strength is 400 N/mm². The plate carries 12 kN; neglect plate weight. Find resultant shear on bolt 2 (integer N).
Bolt 2 lies at the bolt-group centroid. Direct load shares equally among the three bolts: 12000/3 = 4000 N each. Eccentric load also creates a moment, but its additional bolt shear is proportional to distance from the centroid and is zero for bolt 2. Hence its resultant is **4000 N**.
More Theory of Machines and Design questions
GATE 2024 PI Q34– An offset slider–crank is shown, with crank l, connecting rod 3l and offset l. For l = 10…
GATE 2024 PI Q51– A flat belt on a pulley of radius 20 cm transmits 6.283 kW at 600 rpm, with friction…
GATE 2023 PI Q28– A solid circular flywheel disk is 0.025 m thick, has density 7800 kg/m³ and central mass…
GATE 2023 PI Q62– A key of width and height 6 mm fixes a gear to a shaft of diameter 20 mm. Power is 10 kW…
GATE 2023 PI Q64– A spur-gear pair transmits 20 kW at pitch-line velocity 10 m/s. Driving-gear diameter is…
GATE 2022 PI Q26– The shown slider–crank rotates at 60 rpm. Crank radius is 30 mm and connecting-rod length…
