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    Calculating Stresses on Inserts

    Thank you for your responses. I have the strength of the brass material and the sterngth of the plastic material, I guess I was looking for a way to predict failure strength without testing to a particular margin of error. How do I go about assigning a safety factor. I also know the thread...
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    Calculating Stresses on Inserts

    Does anyone know of a calculation to utilize for estimating the strength of inserts in plastics. The inserts I am speaking of are the ones to be thermally or ultrasonically installed. I want to know if I have to take into account the thread stress area or not. Seems like many variables to...

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