Tensiones en uniones soldadas a tope con perfiles abiertos bajo torsión

Abstract

In this paper is addressed how in the literature of Mechanic of Materials and Machine Elements Design only few authors address the subject of welded joints, among those can be mentioned Shigley Hall, Reshetov, and Faires [1, 3, 4-5]; although they provide expressions to calculate stress in complex geometric configurations of welded joints, they do not analyze calculation for butt welded joints subject to torsion, neither take into account characteristics of thin-walled side faces for the calculations. Only in the General Treaty of Schimpke Welding, Horn and Ruge are mentioned these features without addressing the expressions for the calculation of stresses in cases of complex cases. Similar case is seen in articles and specialized literature wheredelves into research on the technological parameters in welding, materials and other subjects without addressing the improvement of calculation expressions to determine the stresses in such joints. In this paper new expressions are shown for the calculation of tangential stresses arising on the welds on butt joints of open profiles under free torsion, taking into account thin-wall side faces.