Abstract:To satisfy the need of pipeline passing through, weight reduction, maintenance etc., we usually have to add holes to the structure. Based on Patran and Nastran, this article makes an analysis on the shear stability and holeedge stress concentration of fouredge simplified rectangular flat plane with different hole position under shear load. The analysis result shows that the different hole position made different influence on the shear stability and holeedge stress concentration of rectangular flat panel, which could be used for structural hole design.