Models of 25 different shapes of keyed connections have been loaded by a large range of torques, using ordinary and frozen-stress photoelasticity. Empirical formulae have been derived for five contact points where the stresses are concentrated. These formulae give good predictions over the complete shape range of the metric and inch standards. The latter is consistently better than the former.
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