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Anchor bolt for skid base.convertion of moments into tension force

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Im designing a Anchor bolt for skid base. There is a moment in the anchoring location.
How to convert the moments into tension force. I have attached the image. Please help.

Hi
Look at this link:http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Screws/Bolt...
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

Not much thread engagement, and a mighty difficult threaded hole to machine as drawn.
@desertfox
A bolt can be loaded in one of three ways mentioned below.
Tension
Shear
Combined Shear and Tension
But my doubt is how to convert the moments into tension.

@Tmoose
You mean to say need more thread length?
Hi
Under the link I gave you earlier scroll down strength of joints withstanding bending forces and it covers your situation.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

@desertfox
In the link which you gave give the detail of force to moment conversion. It gives resulting tensile bolt stress from the applied
vertical load.
But in my case i dont have force. I have only moment. how to convert the moments into tension.
Hi
The link I gave you shows the forces Fh and Fv creating moments about the bracket and resolving them into tensile forces in
the bolts.
Where does the force act in your situation that generates the moment.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

2000 kN is a force, not a moment. A length to the point of force application is required, and the units would be kiloNewton
meters or something similar.
@desertfox
If i apply the formula given in your link the tensile force on 1st bolt comes 6000 KN. It does not seems correct.
If there are x bolts( numbered n = 1 to x). Then the tensile force withstood be each bolt is designated Fnt i.e F1t,F2t, F3t....Fxt
A selected bolt (n) withstands a tensile force of Fnt = ( Fv. Rv + Fh. Rh) . Vn / (V12 + V22....Vx2 )
Vn= 0.3m
V1 = 0.3m
V2 = 0.1m
Fv. Rv + Fh. Rh = M = 2000 KNm
Fnt = 2000 . 0.3 / (0.3^2+0.1^2) = 6000 KN ????
Will it create such a huge 600 Tons of tensile force in a single bolt???

@Tmoose Its moment only. Unit mistake in the image.

Am I missing something ?

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=909e15f2-5f39-46c2-acef-d9

Hi
your calculation is incorrect because you are using Fv and Fh but you haven't told us where or what the forces are on your joint
to create the moment you are using, so what you have done is completely wrong, I suggest you get some help from a senior
engineer.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

@desertfox
Dear desertfox Thanks.
Thats why i said that formula is not applicable for this moment.
These moment of 2000 KN is created by some equipment and columns resting on the skid frame. Skid will look like the below
image. It is not actual model. My model will look like this one. This skid will be anchored to another steel frame in Ship.
The reaction is taken from STAAD analysis output. it is Mz.
Vn= 0.3m
V1 = 0.3m
V2 = 0.1m
Fh.Rh = M = 2000 KNm
Fnt = 2000 . 0.3 / (0.3^2+0.1^2) = 6000 KN ????
Will it create such a huge 600 Tons of tensile force in a single bolt???

@robyengIT
Dear robyengIT Thanks for your calculation. But you assumed tension upward in 1 bolt downward in another bolt. but actually
both the bolts will subject to tension in one direction. see my image.
Hi
Well you might of known the formula wasn't applicable but from your original post how was I supposed to know that.
If you gave all the correct information at the start we wouldn't be wasting our time and yours.
Sadly I cannot mind read!
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

@desertfox
Dear desertfox sorry. If u feel i wasted ur time. In my first post itself i posted the image. where a beam anchored on bottom.
And mentioned its a skid base anchor. But in your link beam connected to column side.
What wrong info I provided?
Hi
Your post shows a beam over hanging two fixings and a moment of 2000kN which is actually only a force, I took it that the
force was acting on the beam as a cantilever and the bolts resist the cantilever action which is why I directed you to that site.
I have asked several times where the forces act along the beam to generate your moment on the sketch but I haven't had a
clear answer but now after several days we get a full photograph of a frame which changes the problem dramatically, explain to
me how from your sketch I'm supposed to envisage not two anchor points but several along a long frame, look at your first
sketch the frame could be up in the air resting on four columns but it clearly isn't.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

desertfox : I am upset as You

Anupriya123 : my last post. After that buy a book

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Thanks desertfox
I would like to explain more. After I posting photograph of the frame no change in the problem. You still not understand the
problem. 2000KNm moment is not on the entire frame. It is only at the end point of the skid. Every anchor point has moment.
What i highlighted is maximum moment. If the bolt design is ok for that critical end point which i highlighted then no issue for

other location.
After analysing the structure in software we will get force and moment at each anchoring point. We have to check the bolt
design for critical anchoring location. So i posted the critical anchoring point location drawing on my 1st post. But 1st time when
a person see such a drawing they may thing beam resting on column. Thats my mistake Sorry for that.
I'd be asking yourself why you are getting a moment (and a large moment at that) in the location in the photo.
It looks like a nominally pinned connection to me... But what do I know. As someone else noted, you should discuss your
analysis assumptions with a senior engineer, you likely have something else wrong along the way in getting to this point. Your
member for example doesn't appear to be of a size to even support a moment of 2000kNm,but hey what do I know.
If there is a huge moment as shown, and the beam and plate are sort of rigid, both bolts will be in tension.
But the proportions shown suggest that the bolts will strip out of the plate before the joint reaches equilibrium.
I surely haven't seen every possible skid base anchor detail, but that is one of the worst I have seen.
You need to get help, where you are, from a more senior engineer, who understands what you are trying to do.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

"After analysing the structure in software".....

Are you setting boundary conditions at each anchor point as initially perfectly flat and colinear with all the others?
And then solving for what each bolt would have to do to enforce that (unrealistic) condition?
I'd make one bolt of the pair out of rubber at each anchor point, and see what the vertical deflection is at the rubber bolt to get
an idea if the Hbeam is large enough, or the anchor points are in the right places, close to the loads applied to the Hbeams .
With single bolts/simple supports I'd expect the moment at those end pads to be ~ zero, as others suggested.
http://faculty.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/...
At the real installation what will the anchor point detail be?
- Each H beam flange fully grouted in place ?
- Shimmed and grouted just at the anchor points ?
- Bolted down directly to a concrete floor or foundation block?
This skid is not anchored to concrete. It will be mounted to another steel frame. Hence the anchoring point is not rigid in Y
(Vertical) Due to this when there is a operational load base beam member will subject to some deflection. which will create
moment. In analysis it is not pinned connection. It is fixed but with vertical spring constants.

Eureka... It's a pin!

Can beam it's sitting on support a 2000kNm torsion? No I am guessing? Then it's behaviour is close to a simple support in
reality.
Something is wrong with your support assumptions if you are getting any moment (as torsion) into the supporting beam. If you
don't believe us actually model the 4 support beams and you will see some small torsion in the supporting beam even with a
'fixed' end connection between the frame and the supporting beams. You will not have a 2000kNm moment at the support
location.
The heavy moment is due to the column, equipment & mainly wind load on a vertical vessel above the skid. The vessel height is
more than 10m. it is in the corner of the skid. The exact moment is 1887 KNm.
Hi Agent666
The problem is that like me, according to the OP you don't understand the problem.
For example we started off with a sketch showing a column and a beam with an end moment which as suddenly transformed
into a beam with 4 supports but we should have guessed this without the OP informing us.
Having asked what's creating the moment and where this does this force act we seem to get a fluid answer, on the 16th the
2000kNm was due to some equipment a and column resting on the beam and today we are told its created by wind loading on
a vertical vessel above the skid but hey we should have guessed that from the information given, clearly our crystal balls are
due for a service,
I doubt that the OP will accept that it is his lack of understanding and knowledge of how to ask a question is the real problem.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein

Anupriya123, is the moment actually the reaction? Or is it just the moment in the frame at the support.
If it is the reaction and you are getting a moment transferring to the supporting beam as a torsion, then something is wrong in
your model. Please provide printouts of the moment, shear, reactions and deflections so we can understand your analysis you
are relying on.

Hi Agent666
Its a reaction.

The drawing showing the location of those nodes on the model got dropped by the upload genie.
You appear to be fixing your frames for moment at all supports. This assumption is inconsistent with the detailing. Pin these
supports, or explain why you think they have moment fixity at these locations?
I was really referring to providing the shear and moment diagrams, not just a list of numbers which we have no idea where
they apply.
Or just design the bolts for 6000kN force if you don't think your support beams will rotate as per the graphic you provided.

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