- 2081 Chaitra · 8 marks
Bracket plate on column flange, 5 M20 bolts
Short answer
For M20 grade 4.6 bolts, shear capacity 45.26 kN governs. Direct shear per bolt P/5 plus torsion from eccentricity 100 mm gives resultant 0.4031P_u per bolt. Equating to shear capacity gives P_u = 112.3 kN. Safe working load = P_u/1.5 ≈ 74.9 kN.
A bracket plate is bolted to the flange of a column using 5 Nos. of M 20 bolts of grade 4.6 and is loaded as shown in the figure. Determine the maximum value of working load 'P' which can be carried safely. [Figure: 10 mm thick bracket plate bolted to the flange of an ISMB 300 column; load P acts at 250 mm from the column face; plate width 300 mm; 5 bolts arranged with vertical pitch 80 mm and 80 mm and horizontal spacings 90 mm, 60 mm, 60 mm as dimensioned]
Assumptions (figure values are ambiguous): the bracket plate (10 mm) lies against the column flange (ISMB 300, mm) and the load acts in the plane of the bolts. The 5 bolts are M20, grade 4.6, in the pattern: four corner bolts at mm and one at the centre (gauges 60+60 and pitch 80+80; this makes the corner distance mm). The bolt group centroid is 150 mm from the column face (90 mm edge + 60 mm), so the eccentricity of (250 mm from the face) is mm. Working load = factored load / 1.5.
o o y = +80
o y = 0 centre
o o y = -80
x=-60 +60 P acts e = 100 mm from centroid
Bolt value (IS 800:2007, cl. 10.3)
- M20: mm², , , mm.
- Shear (single shear, thread in plane): kN
- Bearing (plate 10 mm, , ): ; kN
- Bolt value kN (shear governs).
Force on the critical (corner) bolt, per unit factored load
- mm²; torsion
- Direct shear (vertical)
- Torsional force , with components and
- Resultant
Capacity
Answer: factored load kN; safe working load kN.
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