Simulation of the stress field in the welded joint using FEM

Abstract

The calculation of the fillet welds are performed based on the method delivered by the standard PN-EN 1993-1-8:2006. The typical result of the calculations is the Huber-Mises criteria for the critical section. The standard does not refer to the phenomenon of stress concentration that have to take place in the welded joint in case of incomplete fusion. In this paper the finite element method is used to estimate precisely this phenomenon.

Keywords

• FEM
• fillet weld
• concentration of stress