Fatigue analysis software suite offers increased neutrality for FEA users
Fatigue analysis software suite offers increased neutrality for FEA users
Keywords: Software, Fatigue
Safe Technology has announced the release of another FEA interface for fe-safe, further increasing the neutrality of their suite of durability analysis software for finite element models.
Fe-safe v5.00-11 is now available with a direct interface to the NASTRAN OUTPUT2 file format. This is a major sub-release of fe-safev5, released by Safe Technology in January. The new interface can be downloaded by NASTRAN users directly from the company's Web site: www.safetechnology.com
This new development means that fe-safe uniquely offers direct interfaces to the following FEA file formats.
ABAQUS.ODB and .FIL,
ANSYS .RST files,
NASTRAN .OP2 and .FO6,
IDEAS .UNV,
BEASY,
Pro/Mechanica,
Hypermesh,
PATRAN,
FEMSYS,
CADFIX,
MTS RPCIII, and
Adams.
Other new developments also now incorporated in fe-safev5.00-11 are: influence coefficients – evaluation of the individual contribution of a unit load on the strains or stresses in a particular direction; gauge outputs– this facility enables the strains or stresses in a particular direction to be exported.
This is in addition to the extended capabilities and substantial increases in speed of analysis and ease of use already incorporated in fe-safev5. These include:
complex loading conditions and advanced multiaxial fatigue capabilities;
fatigue analysis of cast iron;
fatigue analysis of welded structures;
high temperature and creep fatigue analysis;
fe-rotate (quick analysis of axi-symmetric components);
thermo-mechanical fatigue analysis;
comprehensive signal processing capabilities (safe4fatigue); and
default algorithms (automatic selection of the most appropriate method of fatigue analysis based on the selected material, ensuring ease of use for even the non-specialist engineer).
