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33 - Actual Throat
According the the AWS standard terms and definitions, the actual throat is "the shortest distance between the weld root and the face of a fillet weld." The lap model treats the two inner gap points as the weld root (Inner Top Gap - 12, Inner Bottom Gap - 13). Then the shortest distance to the surface of the weld is found.
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