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Flanged Bolt Couplings

The document discusses flanged bolt couplings, explaining how torque is transmitted through shearing forces in bolts. It provides formulas for calculating torque capacity based on bolt arrangement and material properties, along with several examples demonstrating these calculations. The examples include varying bolt sizes, arrangements, and allowable shearing stresses to illustrate the application of the concepts presented.

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Flanged Bolt Couplings

The document discusses flanged bolt couplings, explaining how torque is transmitted through shearing forces in bolts. It provides formulas for calculating torque capacity based on bolt arrangement and material properties, along with several examples demonstrating these calculations. The examples include varying bolt sizes, arrangements, and allowable shearing stresses to illustrate the application of the concepts presented.

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Flanged bolt couplings

In shaft connection called flanged bolt couplings (see figure), the torque is transmitted by the shearing force P
created in the bolts that is assumed to be uniformly distributed. For any number of bolts n, the torque capacity
of the coupling is

where the subscript 1 refer to bolts on the outer circle an subscript 2 refer to bolts on the inner circle.
See figure.

For rigid flanges, the shear deformations in the bolts are proportional to their radial distances from
the shaft axis. The shearing strains are related by
If the bolts on the two circles have the same area, A 1 = A2, and if the bolts are made of the same material, G 1 =
G2, the relation between P1 and P2 reduces to

Example No.1
A flanged bolt coupling consists of ten 20-mm-diameter bolts spaced evenly around a bolt circle 400
mm in diameter. Determine the torque capacity of the coupling if the allowable shearing stress in the bolts is
40 MPa.

Examplw No.2
A flanged bolt coupling consists of ten steel ½-in.-diameter bolts spaced evenly around a bolt circle 14
in. in diameter. Determine the torque capacity of the coupling if the allowable shearing stress in the bolts is
6000 psi.

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Example No.3
A torque of 700 lb-ft is to be carried by a flanged bolt coupling that consists of eight ½-in.-diameter
steel bolts on a circle of diameter 12 in. and six ½-in.-diameter steel bolts on a circle of diameter 9 in.
Determine the shearing stress in the bolts.
Example No.4
A plate is fastened to a fixed member by four 20-mm-diameter rivets arranged as shown in Fig. P-333.
Compute the maximum and minimum shearing stress developed.

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