Shear stress
Shear stress
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Most material handbooks does not show a value for shear stress. I read somewhere that in a steel material, shear stress = yield stress/2 (approx.). Does anyone know if this is true or not. How about wood and plastic? Any comments are appreciated.





RE: Shear stress
HTH,
Efraim
RE: Shear stress
http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/strength_defs.htm
http://www.vishay.com/brands/measurements_group/guide/ta/pc/pcindex.htm
http://www.dow.com/engineeringplastics/tech/guide/display.htm?guide=shear2.htm
http://www.pcn.org/Technical%20Notes%20-%20Gates%20and%20runners.htm