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    Calculate welding strength?

    Hi Guys

    I need some help to calculate the welding strength on the product that I have made. How do I calculate it without using Inventor etc. ?

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    a:150 mm
    b: 68 mm

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    a: 90 mm
    b: 48 mm
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    Search the internet for "Inventor and weld strength analysis".

    I got 1,690,000 results including many videos.
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    It might be easier to first determine the actual loading on the frame...

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    then, calculate the stress on the weld.

    Weld Design and Stress Calculators
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    Thanks for your reply

    I dont want to use Inventor. I need to calculate it by my self, but there is very different ways to do that. However I am not sure which way to use?

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    The maximum load including the frame is 300 kg

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    I was taught that one fairly conservative way to estimate weld strength is to consider the load as a shear load and hence use the shear strength of the material, instead of the tensile properties, and the smallest cross section of the weld.

    I do not know of a really great way to determine weld strength given all the variables in the process.

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    Bottom line for me after witnessing several failures over the years (one of which crushed a fork truck driver and another could have led to multiple fatalities) - on any critical application I avoid designing welds to be in tension at all costs. For example, the upper surface of a loaded horizontal cantilever beam connection is in tension. The lower surface is in compression. I try to design critical welded joints so that the failure mode is a shearing or sliding action of the components rather than direct separation.
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