About Partitions and Meshing for Weld Features in Verity Simulations

Weld fillet sets require meshes where the weld part and the plates being joined share the nodes on the fusion interfaces.

The following image describes the required partitions for weld fillet sets that you want to include in a Verity weld durability analysis:



Partition for toe failure


Partition for throat failure


Partition for root-through-plate failure


Partition for toe failure

The following image illustrates the partitions required for the Basic Nodal Force and Enhanced Nodal Force structural stress methods for meshing solid geometry for Verity toe failures.



This image shows the structured mesh on partitioning faces for the Basic Nodal Force method:



This image shows the unstructured mesh on partitioning faces allowed for the Enhanced Nodal Force method: