Oh I see what you're getting at, although your diagram confused me for a while. Do you mean:
i.e. the reaction is a normal force plus a moment caused by the eccentricity, which can be swapped into a couple (R1) acting about the mid-point of the contact area.
M = mg*e = R1 * 2b/3
I think at one...
I'm analyzing a pallet holder where the load (mass = m, length = L, assumed to be a rigid body) rests between the top and bottom plates (it's just slotted in there, the top plate isn't weighting the load down in any way). The load is also secured laterally with a slight slip allowed but just...
Thanks SWComposites and SparWeb. That does make sense. I suppose in the event that one hole becomes oversized, the bolt may never reach the edge of the hole and so load would just transfer through all the other bolts/holes (until the dodgy bolt ends up with a bending load). One of the holes I'm...
I have a piece of non-critical equipment that's mounted underneath a bracket using floating anchor nuts, and I need to reverse-engineer some allowable material removal from the bracket. However I'm having trouble visualizing load transfer through the anchor nuts.
For the vertical load case the...
