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Fatigue analysis is intended for predicting life of structures under cyclic loading.
Background information on Fatigue analysis in SimSolid.
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In SimSolid, uniaxial and multiaxial fatigue analysis using SN (stress-life) and EN (strain-life) approach is supported.
The stress-life method works well in predicting fatigue life when the stress level in the structure falls mostly in the elastic range.
The EN Approach uses plastic-elastic strain results to perform strain-life analysis.
Allows for the study of fatigue performance of spot welds in structures.
The seam weld fatigue implemented in SimSolid is based on linearization of stress in the conjunction with Volvo method and following that it predicts fatigue damage and life. Linearized stress decomposes a through-thickness elastic stress field into equivalent membrane and bending.
The study of fatigue life of structures under random loading.
Use cycle counting to extract discrete simple "equivalent" constant amplitude cycles from a random loading sequence.
Use mean stress correction to account for the effect of non-zero mean stresses.
Palmgren-Miner's linear damage summation rule is used.
Account for factors that can affect fatigue strength of a structure.
Handle scatter in fatigue test results.
Import a loadcase-channel map file to import all the channels defined in the file and create appropriate events.
Import channels which define load amplitude changes in time.
Review channels in a group.
Create an event consisting of channels and loadcases.
Import a file to automatically create load case sequences.
Create a sequence with load cases for the fatigue analysis.
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