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Summary
A physical interpretation is proposed for stress conditions at the toe of weld beads, the principal point of fatigue failure in welded structures. Global stress fields at the surface of joined sheets are composed of a structural stress state due to joint shape and a local stress state due to bead shape.
The proposed approach was applied to fillet welded joints, giving two different interpretations of the local stress field.