Mechanical fasteners, such as screws, bolts, pins and rivets, have been used for hundreds of years to assemble wood and metal structures. As composites have replaced other materials in structural ...

In my previous column, I discussed double-shear testing of a single fastener (see “Editor's Picks,” at right). But fasteners also can be subjected to single-shear loading — our subject this time — and ...

Rohit Ramnath, Application Engineer at Master Bond, talks to AZoM about lap shear strength and how significant is this property for adhesives. Some of the measures of the strength for an epoxy, ...

Liquefaction triggering often reduces the shear strength of a soil so much as to induce damaging and potentially catastrophic displacements (e.g., flow sliding) and bearing capacity failures. The ...

This video shows Admet’s adhesive lap joint shear strength test similar to ASTM D1002. Shear joints provide uniform stresses across the bond area thus optimizing the strength of joints. The shear ...

Interlaminar shear strength is a measure of the in situ shear strength of the matrix layer between plies. There is no method available for exact determination of this property. Approximate values of ...