Hello all,
I am in need of a means to calculate thread strength.
In the assembly of hydraulic actuators, a thread will be machined into the bore of the tube, and onto the mating component. Although we have not suffered any failures, our thread sizes and lengths are always worked, arbitrarily, from the fact that they have worked before. It would be far better to have a definite figure of what the breaking strength of the thread will be.
In looking it up, it appears hard to find a definitive answer. Likewise, to me, it is unclear whether the failure mode of the thread would be under tensile/compressive load, or shear. Either way, I am unsure of quite how the area would be determined.
I would be most grateful if anyone could help me find an answer.
