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Blodgett Weld Sizing for Atypical Shapes

LS_SMS

Mechanical
Sep 18, 2020
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I'm familiar with Blodgett and his method to treat welds as a line. And I have looked at his example weld shapes in his manual, of which there are roughly a dozen (image below). But they are all simple typical shapes.

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My question is how to apply the method to atypical shapes. Below are a couple example images. If the curved yellow lines represent fillet welds, is there a way to use Blodgett to size them?

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It's difficult to answer this with confidence given that you've not supplied the loading on the welds. That said, I suspect that @XR250 has the right of this: it looks more like a horizontal shear problem than a rigid connection problem which is what the Blodgett stuff speaks to. The one exception might be bend areas. I'd recommend stiffeners there to keep things simple.
 
A shear flow calculation should get you the required loading for the horizontal shear that others have pointed out.
 
Size them based on the horizontal shear in the beam
Are you referring to this in Blodgett? (image below)
 

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