SHEAR & BEARING STRESS

Engr. Danielle Ruthie I. Galit

SHEAR STRESS
 Shear stress, is tangent to the plane on which it acts. Shear stress arises whenever
the applied loads cause one section of a body to slide past its adjacent section.
BEARING STRESS
If two bodies are pressed against each other, compressive forces are developed on
the area of contact. The pressure caused by these surface loads is called bearing
stress.
EXAMPLE 1
 The lap joint shown is fastened by four rivets of 3/4-in. diameter. Find the maximum load P that can
be applied if the working stresses are 14 ksi for shear in the rivet and 18 ksi for bearing in the plate.
Assume that the applied load is distributed evenly among the four rivets, and neglect friction between
the plates.
EXAMPLE 2
 The lap joint is connected by three 20-mm-diameter rivets. Assuming that the axial load P=50 kN
is distributed equally among the three rivets, find (a) the shear stress in a rivet; (b) the bearing
stress between a plate and a rivet; and (c) the maximum average tensile stress in each plate.
PRACTICE PROBLEMS
1. What force is required to punch a 20-mm-diameter hole in a plate that is 25 mm thick?
The shear strength of the plate is 350 MN/m2.
2. Assume that the diameter of the rivet that joins the plates is d=20 mm. The working
stresses are 120 MPa for bearing in the plate and 60 MPa for shear in the rivet. Determine
the minimum safe thickness of each plate.

3. Assume that the axial load P applied to the lap joint is distributed equally among the
three 20-mm-diameter rivets. What is the maximum load P that can be applied if the
allowable stresses are 40 MPa for shear in rivets, 90 MPa for bearing between a plate and
a rivet, and 120 MPa for tension in the plates?
4. The uniform 2-Mg bar is supported by a smooth wall at A and by a pin at B that is in double shear.
Determine the diameter of the smallest pin that can be used if its working shear stress is 60 MPa.

5. The bar AB is supported by a frictionless inclined surface at A and a 7=8- in.-diameter pin at B that is
in double shear. Determine the shear stress in the pin when the vertical 2000-lb force is applied.
Neglect the weight of the bar.