In this practical introduction to fe-safe you will learn how to set up and run various fatigue analyses using fe-safe. The course includes many hands-on tutorials and practical examples.
Topics covered in this course include:
- Introduction to fatigue
- The fe-safe user interface:
- opening and using FE models
- using data files
- configuring fatigue analyses
- the fe-safe analysis process
- advanced export options
- Loading methods:
- overview of the basic loading methods
- advanced loading capabilities
- incorporating residual stresses
- defining loading in fe-safe®
- Fatigue methods, including:
- strain-life methods
- stress-life methods
- factor of strength and FRF calculations
- fatigue of cast iron
- high temperature fatigue
- fatigue of welds, including an introduction to the Verity® method
- Hands-on examples and exercises, including:
- choosing algorithms
- configuring analyses
- setting/using defaults
- defining groups and group parameters
- signal processing
- the fe-safe materials database
- using and plotting material properties
- multi-axial loading
- dataset sequence loading
- multi-block loading and damage per block analysis
- analysis of flexible models using modal superposition (steady-state and transient dynamic)
- additional loading features
- export options, including export of stress/strain histories, Haigh diagrams, etc.
- multi-axial fatigue from strain gauges
- fe-safe file structure
- command line and batch processing