This Battelle-developed method for predicting fatigue life in welded structures could revolutionize the field and has the potential to save billions of dollars in the aerospace, automotive, bridge construction, shipbuilding, pipeline, and off-shore oil rig industries. While previous stress concentration calculation methods were highly sensitive to the detail of the computerized model, the Verity™ mesh-insensitive structural stress method has been proven accurate regardless of that detail. And the accuracy far surpasses any existing modeling method, so that fatigue lives of welded structures now can be reliably predicted regardless of the complexity of welded components and modeling details. Verity™ was used to win a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) fatigue design and evaluation committee Weld Challenge against some of the top minds in fatigue life prediction. Recently, one major automotive company began using the method for full-vehicle durability prediction and has seen considerable savings in new-vehicle development cost. Recognizing the enormous impact of Verity™ tools in the automotive industry, SAE International awarded the Battelle researcher, Pingsha Dong, and his team the prestigious Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering.