Lap Joint Weld subject to longitudinal shear only he 1. Simple Shear ‘Maximum Shear Stress = 2. IW Method Allowable Tensile Stress > ‘Which Gives Allowable Tensile Stress = B AND Allowable Tensile Stress > Gy‘The limitation ofthe above equation is that it assumes that stress levels are consistent along the fill length of the fillet weld, this is not tue. The shear stress distribution for such a filet weld will be Plastic Zone Elastic Zone Experimentation has shown that the stress peaks tend to equalise during loading by localised plastic deformation However this does not hold true when the weld becomes long Therefore for the purposes of strength calculation a rule of thumb is to consider only a length = 100 x. ‘Throat thickness as contnbuting to strength. e.g alap joint with a side weld of throat thickness = Smm should not exceed 500mm in length. ‘The ends of the welds are critical and must be defect free as far as possible Next Page Menu Page