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MS20470AD6 - Allowables

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Do you know the allowable shear (if possible also tension) value for rivet MS20470AD6 (3/16) with protruding head and sheet thickness 0.05inch (2024T3/T42)?

Mr. Niu provides in his book the tables, but only up to size 5/32 (pg. 286). Btw. the allowables in this book seems to me very conservative (e.g comparing to hand calculated allowables or data acc. Bruhn). Could you recommend another reference than Niu/Bruhn for rivet allowables?

Thanks for support!
 
The shear strength for the MS20470AD rivet is available in MIL-
HDBK-5 available at the DOD website. This publication has been superceeded by the MMPDS. Anyway, the values in handbook 5 should still be close.

Cheers
 
from AR-MMPDS-01, shear allowable = 0.97*860 = 834 lbs
bearing allowable = 955*1.3 = 1141 lbs (not critical)

from McCombs supplement to Bruhn, table A20, tension allowable = 520 lbs
 
Thanks for data. I checked the allowables again - it was a mistake from my side. The correlation between Bruhn and Niu is pretty good (approx. 2%). I was comparing protruding head and countersunk head. This can never lead to correct results ...
 
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