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Credit: 2 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Jyoti Mukherjee, P.E., DEng, M.S., MBA, PGDBM
In Design and Analysis of Weldments, you'll learn ...
- The complete design methodology for welded steel structures based on strength, life, and cost requirements
- The mechanical behavior of welded joints under static, impact, fatigue, and vibratory loading
- The integration of material properties and sectional properties in weldment stress analysis
- How to design welded structures for durability, stiffness, damping performance, and manufacturing efficiency
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 49 pages
The welding process is an ancient technology for the localized joining of metal parts. This process is primarily used to weld steel, aluminum, and cast iron. This process is typically used to melt metals locally by blows, with or without mechanical pressure. A weldment is a component connected by welding. There are several welding processes, including forge welding, resistance welding, spot welding, seam welding, and fusion welding, gas welding, arc welding, and several types of welded joints, including edge weld, butt weld, and fillet weld.
This course provides a comprehensive treatment of the design and analysis of welded steel structures, with emphasis on strength, fatigue life, impact resistance, vibration control, and cost-effective manufacturing. It discusses weldment requirements for machine tools and structural applications, comparing welding with casting, bolting, and riveting in terms of flexibility, productivity, stiffness, and weight reduction. The course explains weldment design methodology, including load identification, system-level analysis, stress and strain evaluation, prototype validation, and quality control.
Fundamental material properties such as yield strength, ultimate strength, modulus of elasticity, shear strength, fatigue strength, and modulus of resilience are examined in detail. Sectional properties—including area, moment of inertia, section modulus, polar moment of inertia, and radius of gyration—are applied to tensile, bending, torsional, and combined stress analysis. The course addresses weld joint strength criteria per AWS guidance and introduces fatigue design tools such as the S–N curve and Goodman diagram. Special focus is given to impact loading, energy absorption capacity, stress concentration effects, damping, and resonant frequency control in welded structures.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify design requirements for welded steel structures.
- Explain the design approach and guidelines for welded steel structures.
- Compare welding types used for steel structures, including their advantages and disadvantages.
- Apply design procedures for welding steel structures.
- Describe the relevant properties of steel base metals.
- Explain component-preparation requirements for welding.
- Calculate the strength of welded joints.
- Design welds for impact loading.
- Analyze weld design for fatigue loading.
- Apply fatigue-design guidelines to weldments.
- Explain vibration-control considerations in weldment design.
- Describe damping considerations for weldment structures.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 49 pages
