×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Flange Plate Question

Flange Plate Question

Flange Plate Question

(OP)
I have need for a reliable way to check the stresses in a circular bolt pattern on a circular flange plate that joins two vertical shafts together. Is there some software out there that can give me the max bolt tension and plate thickness required?  
I know the ultra conservative way would be to use a P/A + M/S method with pretensioned bolts, but when you encounter very high loads you just can't put enough bolts in place to accomplish this.  Any help would be appreciated.

William Ford
sesi@mindspring.com
Spiral Engineering Services, Inc.

RE: Flange Plate Question

Is this for a torsion or normal load?

Imagineer


RE: Flange Plate Question

(OP)
To: MarkRPflow (Industrial)
Thanx for mentioning the sites, but neither has any software that will do the job.

To: Imagineer (Structural)
The connection is subjected to it all ---- moment, shear, axial and torsion.

I appreciate your interest in this problem.


wyf (The Polecat)

SESI

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources