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It is a case of transverse shear only. There are bolts which take the longitudinal loads and shear pins which take the shear load (free to move in axial direction). I know the transverse and longitudinal shear are equal. I am just wondering if the distribution is really correct in this kind of...

Sorry I didn't clarify enough. The picture drawn is a cross section. In reality the pin is a circle. So you think a k value should be used in this case?

Thanks for your reply. Is there any way to justify this? Would you include this shear factor if it where a bolt with clearance? My colleagues always use this shear factor "k". A third official party will have to verify our calculations.

basically my question is just that if I want to calculate the shear stress in the pin should I use shear_stress=F/A or k*F/A, where k is the shear factor of 4/3 in this case. This shear factor is based the shear in axial direction. Example and explanation here...

Hi all, Currently I am doing some calculations which involve shear forces in pins (retrieved from FEA). The maximum shear factor for a round pin would be 4/3. However I am wondering if this also applies for pins with in plane shear. The pins are forced into a hole and connect two flanges. There...

Actually the the element orientation got switched around. Still not solved.

Thanks for all the feedback. The reason why the stress was different is because i applied a pressure. The plate model has a larger surface area, after adjusting for this the stresses are equal for both models (away from stress concentration).

Thanks for your reply. I capped it at 227Mpa so you can see the same scale for both models. Locally the stress is of course larger than this. What concerns me is that the for the plate mesh i have a larger red spot than for the solid mesh. The solid mesh only has one node that is larger than...

I'm making a model for a pressure vessel. First i made one quickly with 3D solid mesh tetra10 noded. But because i wanted to make some adjustments it was easier to make a plate mesh. Locally the stress is larger for my plate mesh than my solid mesh and i don't understand why. Thicknesses are...

Hi all, At my company we want to establish acceptance criteria for FEM. This is mostly concerning peak stresses. Our safety factors are set by the company, we don't use any norm at the moment. The main issue we have is that we want to identify when a stress exceeding local stress it's a peak...