PSI - Issue 75

Georg Veile et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 75 (2025) 184–192 Georg Veile / Structural Integrity Procedia (2025)

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Fig. 3. Influence of smoothening the weld topology on the deviation of fatigue life prediction using gradient based FDP (left) and FDP without gradients (right). The quantity of implemented NURBS is illustrated in colour with corresponding naming from N250 (used in Veile et al. (Veile et al. 2025)) down to N10.