In a steel plate girder, the web plate is connected to the flange plates by fillet welding.
The size of fillet weld is designed to safely resist

- 1
  
  the bending stresses in the flanges
- 2
  
  the vertical shear force at the section
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  the horizontal shear forces between the flanges and the web plate
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  the forces causing buckling in the web

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