Reply To: Question Regarding the Validity of Stress Concentrations

[jmcclos8]

Hi Ashish,

Thank you for youre response. I have rerun the simulation with a tighter mesh near the stress concentration. I have embedded an image of this below. In term of failure citeria, the vessel is made of 5052 aluminum that will be TIG welded. These stress concetrations are in the heat affected zone of the weld so failure is somewhere in the region of 100 MPa.