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Industry is putting increasing pressure on manufacturers to use less material to deliver lightweight but stronger components,fewer warranty and recall costs and all in less time. > Many companies use advanced finite element analysis to calculate design stresses, but the fatigue analysis is often still done by manuallypicking stress points for spread-sheet analysis. This is time consuming and unreliable because its easy to miss failure locations.Component validation by fatigue testing a prototype design in the test lab is time-consuming. If the prototype fails prematurely,a costly, open-ended...

can predict fatigue lives from a range of loading types: Single load time history applied to a linear elastic finite element model Օ Multiple time histories of loading superimposed in (more than 4000load histories can be applied) Sequence of FEA stresses (elastic or elastic-plastic, linear or non-linear) Օ Modal superimposition PSD loading, block loading test programmes, rainflow cycle matrices Օ Effects of forming or assembly stresses can be includedincludes a powerful simple-to-use batch command system,with on-line parametric variation for sensitivityђ studies.Standard analyses can be set up...

outputs a wide range of results in a single run: Contours of fatigue life show crack initiation site Օ Contours of stress-based factors of strength for aspecified design life - to show how much the stressesmust be changed to prevent failure or to reducematerial costs > Braking, cornering and verticalloads from each road surface Damage at the critical locationfrom each road surface Probability of survival for specified lives (the Ցwarranty curve) ҕ Determines which loads need to be included in a test programme Contour plots of maximum stress during loading Օ Detailed results - time histories of...

is a revolutionary new mesh-insensitive structural stressmethod developed by that allows engineers to predict failure locations and calculatefatigue lives for welded joints and structures. It is available from Safe Technology as an add-on moduleto , and allows both welded and non-welded areas to be analysed in a single operation and displayed as a single fatigue life contour plot. has been developed in partnership withSerco Assurance to assess creep damage, fatigue damageand creep-fatigue interactions. creep-fatigue algorithms have been successfully applied to nuclear power plant components,...

Safe Technology Limited is a technical leader in the design and development of durability analysis software. We continually push the boundariesof fatigue analysis software to ensure greater accuracy and confidence in modern fatigue analysis methods for industrial applications. Safe Technology is a privately-owned company, focused entirely on the development of fatigue analysis software and associated consultancy,training and support. is developed in close collaboration with leading engineering companies to provide the capabilities required for real industrial applications.We work closely with...