Fatigue Scanning V231.1

Supports Ansys: 2021 R1, 2022 R1, 2022 R2, 2020 R1, 2020 R2
Target Application: Mechanical
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Product Info
Postprocessing tool for evaluating maximum stress or strain range from a selected range of solution steps or a solution combination.
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Product Overview

With the Fatigue Scanning app, select the geometry of interest (typically a number of faces of a body) and let the app run all possible load case combinations from the selected steps.

Use Cases

In multi-step analysis with non-proportional loading (due to transient thermal body loads for example), it is difficult to identify all possible hot spots from a fatigue point of view.
- A stress envelope “Maximum Over Time” is not enough because the stress orientation might shift between steps.
- While a manual “Solution Combination” between two load cases could be used to plot the stress range, if there are more than three or four load steps, the number of possible load step combinations quickly becomes too large.

You should use the Fatigue Scanning app instead.

Key Benefits

The result is the highest stress or strain range from the selected range in the time history.
The results for the nodes and the critical load steps are written to a CSV file in the solution folder and can be used for fatigue analysis.

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Support Information

EDR-Medeso
Johan på Gårdas gata 5A, 41250 Gothenburg
Sweden
ansys@edrmedeso.com
https://edromedeso.github.io/ACT_FatigueScanning/