Automech2013
Mechanical
I'm an engineer and we are installing a piece of equipment we recently purchased. It has some pretty large moment loads and I want to find the tension on the anchor bolts. But don't have a lot of experience in this type of application I'm more of automotive engineer than a structural guy. I found an example problem online that is very similar but don't know how to actually solve for the the 4 bolts tension. Here is what the example is. a Base plate has a moment of 10 kips at 12" off center and the base plate is 12" long the bolts are 2" and 10" from the from the pivot edge of the plate and there are 4 bolts. If you relate that into an equation you have 120In-Kips=(xkips*2inches*2bolts)+(ykips*10"*2bolts). They showed a diagram giving the tension per bolt as 5.77 kips on the bolts 10" away and 1.15 kips on the bolts 2" away so I already had the answers for my "x" and "y". But They said under the diagram a simple calculation can be performed to find these tensions - then didn't show the math. Can anyone please show me how they solved for these tensions?