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Design 07 2
Design 07 2
Design 07 2
Can be disassembled without destructive methods Strong enough to resist tensile and shear loads The bolt here, has been preloaded to an initial tensile load Fi Preload places the bolted member components in compression
Provides better resistance to tensile load Creates friction force to resist shear load
An external load P and external shear load Ps are then applied on the joint Final bolt tension Fb is not affected by the shear load, Ps
b Pb k b
The decrease in deformation of the connected members is,
m Pm km
If the members are not separated,
i.e.
Pb Pm kb k m
b m
Gasketed Joints
When there are more members included in the grip of the bolt, they act like compressive springs in series Total spring rate is given by,
1 1 1 1 1 ...... k m k1 k 2 k 3 ki
If one of the members is a soft gasket, its stiffness relative to the other members is usually very small
So, for all practical purposes, deflection of other members can be neglected
Gasketed Joints
There are three basic gasket configurations
Unconfined gasket (fig. (a) )
It is subject to the full compressive load between the members Stiffness of the metal parts within the bolt grip can be considered to be infinite Design of the connection is based on the stiffness of the gasket
Confined gasket in which the seal is achieved by compressing the gasket (fig. (c) )
Fi Ag po
, where Ag is the gasket area and po is the minimum gasket seal pressure
Fi Ag mp ,
where m is called the gasket factor (analogous to a factor of safety), which varies from 2 to 4 for most materials p is the internal pressure which tends to separate the joint