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Shear

When a shear stress is applied to an object, the force tries to cut or slice through, like a knife cutting through butter. A clevis bolt, which is often used to secure a cable to a part of the airframe, has a shear stress acting on it. As shown in Figure 3-23, a fork fitting is secured to the end of the cable, and the fork attaches to an eye on the airframe with the clevis bolt.

When the cable is put under tension, the fork tries to slide off the eye by cutting through the clevis bolt. This bolt would be designed to take very high shear loads.

 
 
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