Can anyone teach me how to make a butt welded joint using ANSYS? Or in other word, how to define two plate that had been bond together by welding. Thanks

i got three questions here.

1) If im using ANSYS, how am i gonna do a fatigue life prediction of a welded joint? The speciment is butt joint. I need to know the procedure.

2) If im using ANSYS nCode DesignLife, how am i gonna obtain the SN curve if im using FE Model or Multi-column?

3) If Im using ANSYS nCode DesignLife, what should i pick for the geometry if im doing on CTOD method of a butt joint welded speciment?

Thanks for the help. :)