Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Strength of weld materials 1
- Thread starter GUY
- Start date
-
1
- #2
The American Welding Society (AWS) publishes voluminous material on this subject:<br>
<br>
<A HREF=" TARGET="_new"><br>
You can also look in the AISC Steel Manual (ASD for allowable stresses), chapter J. The problem here is that the actual weld materials are not spelled out. But, if you know the tensile strength of the electrode (such as 70 ksi or 60 ksi,) you can calculate the allowable stress from Table J2.5.<br>
<br>
<A HREF=" TARGET="_new"><br>
You can also look in the AISC Steel Manual (ASD for allowable stresses), chapter J. The problem here is that the actual weld materials are not spelled out. But, if you know the tensile strength of the electrode (such as 70 ksi or 60 ksi,) you can calculate the allowable stress from Table J2.5.<br>
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question