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This section calculates the force required to cut a piece of material with a shearing action. The relevant information is the area of the material being sheared, i.e. the area across which the shearing action takes place, and the shear strength of the material. A round bar of steel is used as an
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A crack or tear may develop in a body from parallel shearing forces acting in opposite directions at different points of the body. If the forces were aligned with each other, they would elongate or shorten the body, depending on their direction, rather than tear or crack
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example. The shear strength is calculated from the tensile strength using a factor which relates the two strengths. In this case 0.6 applies to the example steel, known as EN8 bright, although it can vary from 0.58 to 0.62 depending on application.
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Shearing forces act in one direction at the top, and the opposite direction at the bottom, causing shearing
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in a specific direction, and another part of the body in the opposite direction. When the forces are
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To calculate the force to shear a 25 mm diameter bar of EN8 bright steel;
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N/mm) or 0.4 kN/mm and yield strength is 0.60 times tensile strength, 240
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kN/mm and the yield strength is 0.90 times tensile strength, 1080
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MPa and mild steel, for comparison, has a tensile strength of 400
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Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Strength of Materials
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A bolt with property class 12.9 has a tensile strength of 1200
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tonne-force × 0.6 (to change force from tensile to shear) = 24
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Coplanar forces acting on the same body in opposite directions
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A bolt with property class 4.6 has a tensile strength of 400
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Index

Shear stress

deformation

solid mechanics
forces
body
collinear
tension forces
compression forces
planes
riveted
bolted joint
ASTM F568M
Cantilever method
Résal effect
Newton's laws of motion § Newton's third law
Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Strength of Materials
ISBN
978-0-07-046617-3
Categories
Force
Civil engineering

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