Article: Shear and Tension Capacity of stainless steel bolts
Shear and Tension Capacity of stainless steel bolts Introduction. The shear capacity of a bolt, P sb, should be taken as: P sb = p sb A s where: p sb is the shear strength of bolt A s is the shear area, usually taken as the tensile stress area, unless it can be guaranteed that the threaded portion will be excluded from the shear plane, in which case it can be taken as the unthreaded shank area.