Design Procedure Review – 02, Transverse Fillet Weld by Kotur Raghavan

General It would be hard to come across structures and mechanical assemblies which do not contain welded connections. However, in almost all the stress analysis tasks using FEA the weld geometries are not explicitly accounted for. Components which are welded together are assumed to be rigidly connected. One of reasons is the challenges involved because of geometric complexities. Moreover, welded connections are normally configured based on industry standards. All the same, we find chapters on design of welds in all books of structural and mechanical design. One such problem is taken up for study in the present article. This is the second in the DPR series of articles. Transverse Fillet Weld The configuration taken up for study is shown in Fig. 1 below. Load transfer takes place between the plate 1 and plates 2 through the welds 3. Fig. 1 The present study is in the context of the design procedure described by Shigley and Minschke in their book Mechanical Engineering Desig