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).