Welding Calculation

My lecturer told me to find a list of formulae used to do this....

GOOGLE ..."Tensile Strength of welded joints" ...BROWSE ...

Regards Woody

Google > 1.800.000 answers in 0.2 s

Among the first 5 two tables with ALL information you need.

Good luck you will have more material as your lecturer!

If you can, possibly at a library, find the books - particulary "Design of Weldments" and/or "Design of Welded Structures" by Omer Blodgett - he is perhaps the original welding designer and perhaps the BEST.

If you were a member, I'd give you a GA. I have both books. Design of Weldments is probably better for all but structural applications. They are also very inexpensive.

Anyone know if he's still around? He got his start in WW2, so he's got be be in his 80's, but when I met him I got the feeling he would never retire.

Re: "Anyone know if he's still around?" ...

He turned 90 on Nov 27, 2007...

...still has a lot of "friends", whether with us or gone...

Omer W. Blodgett

there's a link to an interview with him that you can watch, as well as individuals who associated with him. One of them might could answer definitively whether he is still with us.

Permit me to provide a great link to his articles

http://weldingmag.com/blodgett/index1.html

Some are great ones and one is important

http://weldingmag.com/blodgett/wdf_66408/

refer especially to

Failure of the code to permit something does not necessarily equal prohibition.

and

In reality, governing codes are likely to be one or two steps behind what is already in practice. This is not necessarily bad. A history of successful usage is often essential before the code writers will incorporate new materials or practices into the standards. In the interim, those with the authority and responsibility to approve or disapprove code alternatives must carefully scrutinize and fully evaluate new practices before officially accepting or rejecting them. Great caution should be exercised, and irresponsible ideas must be disallowed. However, new approaches should not be rejected out of hand simply because they "are not in the code".

The following site Gowelding is very interesting, which includes Calculating the strength of welded connections.

Lap Joint Subject To Bending and Shear

Good info on Welding strength but very bad welding practice.

You get corrosion in the area of the red dot between the two materials. Not recommeded.