A Method for Testing Shear Strength of Brazed Joint

Abstract

A method for testing shear strength of brazed joint has been proposed. The method is based on a compress shear test of a lap joint with two plates of 3 mm thick. The strength obtained by this method may be compared with that by AWS method for shear test. For stainless steel joint brazed with a silver brazing alloy, BAg-I, the agreement was fairly good between strengths obtained by this method and by AWS method. For mild steel joint, which showed considerable dependence of strength on the overlap distance, a slight difference was observed between results by those two methods.