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Increase Customer Satisfaction and Profits Stress-Life Solver
When a product fails in the field, the consequences to manufacturers • Material models
can be significant. Warranty costs are a direct measurement of in-field - SN mean multi-curve
failure, but there are many additional unseen costs. Customers can be- - SN R-ratio multi-curve
come dissatisfied and consider moving to competitors’ offerings, which - SN Haigh multi-curve
leads to lost market share over time. In-field failures might also result - SN temperature multi-curve
in overdesign in subsequent offerings, reducing profitability. - Bastenaire SN
- Custom SN using Python
Today, single event static-only failure is rarely observed in engineer- • Mean stress corrections
ing components or structures during their life cycle. For this reason, - FKM guidelines
in-field failures are predominantly fatigue based. Additionally, fatigue - Goodman
failures are nearly always instantaneous and catastrophic. Fatigue is - Gerber
the progressive and localized structural damage occurring under a • Stress gradient corrections
repeated or varying load, which never reaches a high-enough level to
- FKM guidelines
cause failure in a single application.
- User defined
• Back calculations to target life
Durability or fatigue analysis must be performed to understand the
implications of repeated, fluctuating and rapidly applied loads. Thus,
Strain-Life Solver
the need to resolve mechanical design problems has become a driver
• FE results input
for a growing number of companies to include fatigue analysis as a
- Stress
standard part of their product development processes.
- Linear strain
- Stress and strain
• Material models
- Standard EN
- EN mean multi-curve
- EN R-ratio multi-curve
- EN temperature multi-curve
• Mean stress corrections
- Morrow
- Smith–Watson–Topper
Fatigue life simulation based on static • Plasticity corrections
FE results and cyclic loadings - Neuber
- Hoffman–Seeger
• Multiaxial assessment
- Biaxial
- 3-D multiaxial
- Auto correction
• Back calculations to target life
Static Structural Result
R ELEASE 1 3 .0
ANSYS nCode DesignLife ANSYS nCode DesignLife Vibration enables stress-life fatigue calcula-
Solver Features (continued) tions based on finite element (FE)-based frequency response functions
and power spectral density (PSD) or swept-sine loading definitions,
Spot-Weld Analyzer including a static offset load case. This provides an efficient way of
• Spot-weld fatigue analysis using analyzing fatigue problems in the frequency domain with particular
Rupp/LBF approach applications in simulating vibration shaker tests or loadings typically
• Beam elements described in the frequency domain, such as wind or wave states.
• Optionally predicts torsional failure
mode ANSYS nCode DesignLife Parallel is for parallel processing on machines
with multiple processors (SMP only). Each parallel license allows
Seam-Weld Analyzer another core to be utilized.
• Seam-weld analysis using Volvo
method ANSYS nCode DesignLife Accelerated Testing provides the ability to
• Applicable to fillet, overlap and laser create a representative PSD or swept-sine shaker vibration test based
welds on measured data. The software enables the combination of multiple-
• Thickness and mean stress correction time or frequency domain data sets into representative spectra that
• Bending correction by interpolation accelerate the test without exceeding realistic levels. This option
• Weld toe, root and throat failures creates the spectra that are used together with the vibration fatigue
may be predicted solver option to simulate vibration tests.
• User-defined bending ratio threshold
One Environment
Vibration Fatigue The ANSYS Workbench environment provides a single setting for
• Vibration shaker tests simulation simulation from start to finish, enabling users to perform more prod-
• Random loadings, e.g. wind, waves uct development tasks faster. ANSYS Workbench delivers the basis for
• Uses harmonic response analysis a full engineering simulation solution from ANSYS, providing access
• Power spectral density (PSD) or swept- to a wide variety of simulation technologies. All settings are persistent
sine loading definitions and connected to the parametric computer-aided design (CAD) model,
from analysis-specific modifications made to the geometry through
Accelerated Testing the application of physics, solver control parameters, graphic objects
• Create a representative vibration created during post-processing, and quantitative expressions evaluat-
test from multiple time or frequency ing performance.
domain data sets
• Shorten test times The ANSYS Advantage
• PSD or swept-sine With the unequalled depth and unparalleled breadth of engineering
simulation solutions, companies are transforming their leading-edge
Parallel Processing design concepts into innovative products from ANSYS and processes
• Use multiple cores that work. Today, almost all of the top 100 industrial companies on the
• Linear speed improvement “FORTUNE Global 500” invest in engineering simulation as a key strat-
egy to win in a globally competitive environment. They choose ANSYS
Platform Support as their simulation partner, deploying the world’s most comprehensive
• Windows® (64-bit): Windows XP multiphysics solutions to solve their complex engineering challenges.
Vista® 64, Windows 7 The engineered scalability of solutions from ANSYS delivers the flexibil-
• Windows (32-bit): Windows XP, ity customers need, within an architecture that is adaptable to the pro-
cesses and design systems of their choice. No wonder the world’s most
Vista, Windows 7
successful companies turn to ANSYS — with a track record of 40 years as
the industry leader — for the best in engineering simulation.
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