For a fillet weld of size s, the effective throat thickness used in design is:

Effective throat of fillet weld = 0.707 x s (= s/sqrt(2)), where s = weld size (leg length). The throat is the perpendicular distance from the root to the hypotenuse of the weld cross-section. Effective area = throat x length.

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