//1.)calculate the stress on the lower washers before the nuts are tightened,refer fig 4.5 //2.)what could be the stress in upper and lower washers... clc //solution //given d=20//mm d1=22//mm d2=50//mm d3=22//mm d4=44//mm P1=120000//N P2=5000//N //1)stress on lower washer before the nuts are tightened pi=3.14 A1=(pi/4)*(d2^2-d1^2)//(mm^2) A2=(pi/4)*(d4^2-d3^2)//(mm^2) //since load is equally distributed on 4 washers,therfore load Q1=P1/4 Q1=P1/4//N //calculating stress on lower washer f2=Q1/A1//(N/mm^2) printf("\n the stress on lower washer when nuts are not tightened is,%f N/mm^2\n",f2) //2) //stres on upper washers P2=5000//N f3=P2/A2//stress//(N/mm^2) printf("the stress on upper washer is,%f N/mm^2\n",f3) //stress on lower washer when nuts are tightened f4=(Q1+P2)/A1//(N/mm^2) printf("the stress on lower washer when nuts are tightened is,%f N/mm^2",f4)