Bold Design for simply supported bens in bending

[GoncaloPT]

Hi everyone!
Hope you are all doing great.

Recently, I have to design some bolt connection between two steel profiles for a simply supported beam, and I'm having some troubles on how to get the shear for the bolts conecting the steel profiles.
The bolts are intended to be bolted with a 500 mm spacing between them. I've attached some schemes of the problem below.

I remember some formulas for shear across the sections like

Tau= (V*Q)/(I*t)

but could someone please advise on how to properly apply this for this problem?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[kingnero]

Will you take friction into account or will you rely only on bolt shear resistance?
Tau = force / area with a FoS of 150% will yield same results as your formula, with some caveats. Difference is this averages out the stress, yours works for a parabolic stress distribution. I wouldn't dig too deep here and simply oversize the bolts.

BUT without more information, I'd say that set-up is a bit... sketchy to say the least.

 

[12345abc6ttyui67]

You will want to consider deflection as well if the bolts are not designed as slip critical. Bearing bolts taking up slack in clearance bolt holes will have a significant affect on deflection.