5003 Lectures - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

E5003 - Ship Structures I 189
© C.G. Daley
Shear Flow Example #2
Find the shear stresses in the section below. The
total shear is 10MN (5 MN on the half section.
First we find the section properties:
Item Desc. w h Io a y ay a y 2
1 deck 10 .03 * .3 10 3 30
2 w.t pl. 4 .23 .17 8 1.36 10.9
3 side 10 2.5 .3 5 1.5 7.5
4 bot. 10 .03 * .3 0 0 0
Σ 2.73 1.07 5.86 48.38
The centroid and moment of inertias are (for half
section) ;
Σ ay 5.86