The program Fillet Welds may be downloaded and decompressed ready to run by clicking its name - the browser must be helped by Stuffit Expander or a similar .sit file decompressor.
While every care has been taken to ensure the correctness of the program, it is intended for educational rather than commercial use and no liability is accepted if it is not used as intended.
A dialogue with it follows :
************* Analysis of Fillet FILLET WELDS Welded Planar Joints ************* - version 1f enter - title : example of Notes (kN,mm) Consistent units for all input and corresponding output number of line end-points : 3 and their coordinates point 1 : 0 -180 User selects convenient Cartesian system - point 2 point 2 : 0 0 is origin here (point B of earlier sketches) - and uses point 3 : 120 0 this system consistently for all input number of straight runs : 0 Zero enforces sequential lines between 1 & 2, 2 & 3 centroid at ( 24,-54) weld length = 300 Ixx= 1.069E+6 Iyy= 4.032E+5 Ixy= 3.888E+5 enter the components of force : -4 3 12 kN and of moment : -1200 -1600 0 kN.mm about dummy origin - program converts elements of the b-vector :- automatically to centroidal moment bx = 2.617E-3 by = 5.778E-3 bz =-9.780E-5 kN/sq.mm ie. GPa end-point intensity - components & equivalent line number 1 ( 0,-180) -7.65E-3 -1.01E-3 -2.31E-1 2.32E-1 ( 0, 0) -7.65E-3 -1.86E-2 2.40E-1 2.31E-1 line number 2 ( 0, 0) 1.86E-2 -7.65E-3 2.40E-1 2.37E-1 (120, 0) 1.86E-2 -1.94E-2 -4.53E-1 4.64E-1 maximum equivalent force intensity is 4.639E-1 kN/mm ******** op : s 's'ave option; 'h'elp option lists the options available dialog saved in : DCW Hard Disk:welded joints:fillets:eko op : q 'q'uit option end of program