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Chapter 8 Principal Stresses
under a Given Loading
*8.1 Introduction
*8.2 Principal Stresses in a Beam
*8.3 Design of Transmission Shafts
*8.4 Stresses under Combined
Loadings
*8.1 INTRODUCTION
In the first part of this chapter, you will apply to the design of beams
and shafts the knowledge that you acquired in Chap. 7 on the trans-
formation of stresses. In the second part of the chapter, you will learn
how to determine the principal stresses in structural members and
machine elements under given loading conditions.
In Chap. 5 you learned to calculate the maximum normal stress
s
m
occurring in a beam under a transverse loading (Fig. 8.1a) and
check whether this value exceeded the allowable stress s
all
for the
given material. If it did, the design of the beam was not acceptable.
While the danger for a brittle material is actually to fail in tension,
the danger for a ductile material is to fail in shear (Fig. 8.1b). The
fact that s
m
. s
all
indicates that |M|
max
is too large for the cross sec-
tion selected, but does not provide any information on the actual
mechanism of failure. Similarly, the fact that t
m
. t
all
simply indi-
cates that |V|
max
is too large for the cross section selected. While the
danger for a ductile material is actually to fail in shear (Fig. 8.2a),
the danger for a brittle material is to fail in tension under the prin-
cipal stresses (Fig. 8.2b). The distribution of the principal stresses in
a beam will be discussed in Sec. 8.2.
Depending upon the shape of the cross section of the beam and
the value of the shear V in the critical section where |M| 5 |M|
max
, it
may happen that the largest value of the normal stress will not occur
at the top or bottom of the section, but at some other point within the
section. As you will see in Sec. 8.2, a combination of large values of s
x
and t
xy
near the junction of the web and the flanges of a W-beam or
an S-beam can result in a value of the principal stress s
max
(Fig. 8.3)
that is larger than the value of s
m
on the surface of the beam.
Section 8.3 will be devoted to the design of transmission shafts
subjected to transverse loads as well as to torques. The effect of both
the normal stresses due to bending and the shearing stresses due to
torsion will be taken into account.
In Sec. 8.4 you will learn to determine the stresses at a given
point K of a body of arbitrary shape subjected to a combined loading.
First, you will reduce the given loading to forces and couples in the
section containing K. Next, you will calculate the normal and shearing
stresses at K. Finally, using one of the methods for the transformation
of stresses that you learned in Chap. 7, you will determine the principal
planes, principal stresses, and maximum shearing stress at K.
m
max
m
'
(a)(b)
Fig. 8.1
m
'
'
(a)(b)
Fig. 8.2
max
Fig. 8.3 Principal stresses at the
junction of a flange and web in
an I-shaped beam.
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