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ajdb said:That is why I was generally asking where should I start?
Is there a general term for components that are designed to fail at X force or Y torsion or Z combination of shear and bending?
WARose said:The shear approach is a good one (as I said). To use a real world example: I use to work at a company that did machine design.....and there was a part we designed to fail so that a gear box didn't see certain loads. Ultimately what was used was a small bolt that would fail in shear.
there are break-away anchors:
- example of some for firewall applications
For your project, did you guys do testing afterwards to verify?
And did you guys use FEM to dimension the bolt or were hand calculations enough?
WARose said:What is testing going to tell you anyway?
charliealphabravo said:If you have no specifics then you will want to start by researching some well known designed-to-fail applications.
OP said:Would it not be possible to test until failure to verify that it will fail around the desired loading?