Structural Engineering & Statics
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Bearing — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. Bearing and tear-out against end distance. A 20 mm bolt in a 10 mm plate. Below 165 mm of end distance the bolt tears a channel out to the end and the capacity is proportional to that distance; above it the plate crushes in front of the bolt and the end distance stops mattering. At 40 mm the capacity is 52.12 kN and the mode is tear-out.

    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.

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