Eurocode 1993-1-8:2005 gives a designer a choice between two methods for the design of fillet welds: the simplified and the directional methods. There is no specific guidance on which method to use and, in practice, the choice is usually made on practical grounds. In the directional method, the force acting on the fillet weld is resolved into components parallel and transverse to the plane of the weld throat. As a result, there are uniformly distributed normal stresses and sh