Concept
Bearing — where it appears
2 essays name this object, across one field. What follows is each of them, and the objects they name alongside it.
The hole that goes oval, and the one that tears to the edge
A bolt pressing on the side of its hole either crushes the plate in front of it or shoves a channel of metal out to the end. Which one happens is decided entirely by a distance that is usually set by a minimum in a table.
Where the structure meets the ground, and when the bolts start working
Push a base plate off its middle third and it lifts off the foundation. The holding-down bolts then carry exactly nothing, and go on carrying nothing until the plate has crushed the concrete underneath it.
Named alongside it
The objects these essays reach for when they reach for this one.
ConnectionBase plateBolt groupDuctilityEccentricityEnd distanceHolding down boltLower bound theoremMiddle thirdNo tensionPlate thicknessTear out