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TO PERFORM SHEAR TEST ON A MILD STEEL SPECIMEN AND TO DETERMINE ITS SHEAR STRENGTH.
AIM: To perform Shear test on a mild steel specimen and to determine its shear strength.
THEORY:
A force which makes or tends to make two adjacent parts of a member to slide
relative to one another along their piano of contact is called shear force. The shear
force divided by the area of the shearing plane is termed as the shear stress. The
maximum shear stress which a material can withstand is called the shear stress of the
material. The shear stress involves in the determination of the shear strength of the
material.
In shear test, the specimen is subjected to double shear under a tensile or a
compressive load. The load to cause shear failure is noted. If P is the shear force at the
failure and d is the initial diameter of the specimen, the shear strength is given as,
The Specimen
The specimen used for shear stress is usually solid, rounded, straight rods. The
specimen has larger diameter at the ends for gripping. The diameter of the specimen
is usually 25mm.
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TO PERFORM SHEAR TEST ON A MILD STEEL SPECIMEN AND TO DETERMINE ITS SHEAR STRENGTH.
Compressive load
RESULT
Shear Strength of given specimen ………………………
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TO PERFORM SHEAR TEST ON A MILD STEEL SPECIMEN AND TO DETERMINE ITS SHEAR STRENGTH.
SHEAR TEST
PROCEDURE:
PRECAUTIONS:
1. The fork plates of the shackles should be firmly hold together to eliminate
any bending in the specimen under high loads
2. For the purpose of positioning and rigidly holding the bushes, nuts should
be used
3. All the components of the shear testing machine should be sufficiently
strong so that they may be well within the elastic limit under high loading.
4. The rate of increase of load should not exceed 10 mm/min