Analysis of the influence of different weld geometry model on fatigue strength of a weld

The work was focus on the analysis of the fatigue life of a simple welded joint. The main goal of this work was to compare different methods of evaluation of welded joints and different methods of creating a geometry of computational models. Calculations were per-formed analytically and numerically. The numerical solution was performed using FEM. The problem was analysed in the open-source program Salome Meca and in the commercial pro-gram ANSYS Workbench