THREAD ENGEMENT LENGTH CALCULATION

DESCRIPTION RESULT
28.7
Minimum thread engagement length required Le min
Tapped Hole 14.14
Le

Screw Le 28.666183

Utilmate tensile strength of screw 800

Rm

Yield strength of screw 640

Re

Utilmate tensile strength of cast material (Tapped Hole) 435

Rm

Yield strength of cast material (Tapped Hole) 290

Re

Stress area cross section 156.7

A

Pitch 2
P

Screw diameter d 16

Pitch diameter d2 14.701

Le tapped hole
Equation
Le screw

Le = Minimum Length engagement in mm

Rm = Ultimate tensile strength in Mpa
Re = Yield strength in Mpa (80% of UTS is Yield stren
A = Stress area cross section in mm^2
P= Pitch in mm
d2 = Pitch diameter = d - (0.6495*P)
ATION

Unit Detail Input cell

mm Maximum length from Tapped Result output cell
hole or screw hole to be
mm captured

mm

Mpa

Mpa

Mpa

Mpa

mm^2

mm

mm

mm

=(Rm Screw / Re tapped Hole) * ( 2* A / 0.6*p*d )

=(Rm Screw / Re Screw)* ( 2 A / 0.6*p*d2 )

Le min > maximum value

Minimum Length engagement in mm

Ultimate tensile strength in Mpa
ield strength in Mpa (80% of UTS is Yield strength)
ess area cross section in mm^2

itch diameter = d - (0.6495*P)