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fe-safe
The leading suite of software for fatigue design
fe-safe:
High
temperature
what we do
fatigue of engines
fe-safe
The leading suite of software for fatigue design
TM
High
Fatigue
temperature
of weldedfatigue
joints -ofVerity
engines
TM method
Developed
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TM
High
Fatigue
temperature
of weldedfatigue
joints -ofVerity
engines
TM method
Developed
and
patented
by Verity
the Battelle
The potential
market
for the
Very small components - drive shafts, bicycle
Car bodies and car assembly plant
Institute.
Licensed
to
is vast - for example parts
- Safe Technology
- world-wide agreement in place
This will save millions of dollars - Ford
- we take 40% of the software revenue
Fatigue of pressure
vessels
medical equipment
Medical equipment -
Medical equipment -
Fatigue
of welded
- VerityTM
and fatigue
medical
of.joints
equipment
Medicalvessels
equipment
- Medical
equipment
Pressure
X-ray treatment
mobile
X-ray
treatmentand
and
MRI scanners
mobile
MRI scanners
Arterial
stents
Arterial stents
12
INTERFACES
Input/output
Loading
ABAQUS .fil
ABAQUS .odb
NASTRAN f06
FEA
Design
ABAQUS, ANSYS
I-DEAS,
NASTRAN, Pro/E
Stress
results
NASTRAN op2
fe-safe
ANSYS .rst
I-DEAS .unv
Pro/M s01..., d01
General .csv
Output
Redesign
Hypermesh .hmres
PATRAN
Life
contours
FEMVIEW
CADFIX
FEMAP
Durability by design?
Stress
amplitude
S-N curve
N cycles
(sf-sm)/E
0.001855
0.001793
0.001731
0.001669
0.001607
0.001545
0.001483
0.001421
0.001359
0.001297
0.001235
0.001173
0.001111
0.001048
0.000986
1.25113
1.209275
1.16742
1.125565
1.08371
1.041855
1
0.958145
0.91629
0.874435
0.83258
0.790725
0.74887
0.707015
0.665161
0.006059
0.005813
0.005567
0.00532
0.005074
0.004828
0.004581
0.004335
0.004089
0.003842
0.003596
0.00335
0.003103
0.002857
0.002611
2.00E+05 ampE
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.0019
0.001823
0.001746
0.001669
0.001591
0.001514
0.001437
0.00136
0.001282
0.001205
0.001128
0.001051
0.000973
0.000896
0.000819
ampP
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
amp
0.002848
0.00277
0.002693
0.002616
0.002539
0.002461
0.002384
0.002307
0.00223
0.002152
0.002075
0.001998
0.001921
0.001843
0.001766
Stress
amplitude
amp/Sao
1.194403
1.162002
1.129602
1.097201
1.064801
1.0324
1
0.9676
0.935199
0.902799
0.870398
0.837998
0.805597
0.773197
0.740796
Mean stress
Haigh Diagram
Shortest life
Stress contours
De
elastic-plastic
strain
Notch sensitivity
Distance, r
rc
Whether the crack will propagate or not is defined by the
stress some distance below the surface.
This critical distance is a material property obtained from
DKth
Notch sensitivity
Distance, r
rc
High strength steel critical distance is small (say 0.1mm)
Notch sensitivity
Distance, r
High
steel distance
critical is
distance
is small
(say 0.1mm)
Greystrength
iron critical
large (say
2 mm)
Very
Very notch
notch sensitive.
insensitive.
Cracks
propagate
to to
failure
Cracks will
will usually
often not
propagate
failure
Plasticity
HF Moore - 1927
Crack initiation fatigue lives were related to the amount of
plasticity in notches
Plasticity
What do we mean by plasticity ?
Plasticity
Battelle 1947. Fatigue manual for US Navy
we should look at that portion of the
stress-strain diagram between the
beginning of the tiniest permanent
deformation and the yield strength
400
Cyclic test
350
Yield stre
0.2% proo
from tens
Stress: MPa
300
250
200
SAE1030 steel
150
100
Onset of plasticity
in fatigue
50
0.002
0.004
0.006
0.008
Biaxial fatigue
Findley, 1959
Biaxial fatigue
Biaxial fatigue
Principal stresses may change orientation
Biaxial fatigue
Principal stresses may change orientation
Biaxial fatigue
Principal stresses may change orientation
Biaxial fatigue
Critical plane analysis searches for the most damaged plane
2.
400
300
200
100
0
-100
105
3.
10 6
Life (cycles)
De
2
Constant amplitude
endurance limit
Endurance 2Nf
De
2
Endurance 2Nf
damaging
De
2
Endurance 2Nf
damaging
less damaging
De
2
Endurance 2Nf
damaging
2.
400
1.
SAE1030
300
200
100
0
-100
105
3.
4.
5.
10 6
Life (cycles)
7
10
Tensile residual
stress
Biaxial fatigue
Strain-life for uniaxial stress
De s f (2 N )b
f
2
e f (2 Nf ) c
1.65 (2 N f ) b
2
2
E
1.75 e f (2 N f ) c
600
De
2
Stress (MPa)
500
1.0E+00
1.0E-01
400
300
1.0E-02
200
1.0E-03
100
0
0
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
Strain
1.0E-04
1.00E+00
1.00E+01
1.00E+02
1.00E+03
1.00E+04
1.00E+05
1.00E+06
1.00E+07
Endurance 2Nf
1.00E+08
De
2
Stress (MPa)
500
1.0E+00
1.0E-01
400
300
1.0E-02
200
1.0E-03
100
0
0
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
Strain
1.0E-04
1.00E+00
1.00E+01
1.00E+02
1.00E+03
1.00E+04
1.00E+05
1.00E+06
1.00E+07
Endurance 2Nf
1.00E+08
Punch
Blank Holder
Die
Sheet Metal Forming Simulation
(a)
(b)
Durability by design?
Stress
amplitude
S-N curve
N cycles
(sf-sm)/E
0.001855
0.001793
0.001731
0.001669
0.001607
0.001545
0.001483
0.001421
0.001359
0.001297
0.001235
0.001173
0.001111
0.001048
0.000986
1.25113
1.209275
1.16742
1.125565
1.08371
1.041855
1
0.958145
0.91629
0.874435
0.83258
0.790725
0.74887
0.707015
0.665161
0.006059
0.005813
0.005567
0.00532
0.005074
0.004828
0.004581
0.004335
0.004089
0.003842
0.003596
0.00335
0.003103
0.002857
0.002611
2.00E+05 ampE
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.313619
0.0019
0.001823
0.001746
0.001669
0.001591
0.001514
0.001437
0.00136
0.001282
0.001205
0.001128
0.001051
0.000973
0.000896
0.000819
ampP
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
0.000947
amp
0.002848
0.00277
0.002693
0.002616
0.002539
0.002461
0.002384
0.002307
0.00223
0.002152
0.002075
0.001998
0.001921
0.001843
0.001766
Stress
amplitude
amp/Sao
1.194403
1.162002
1.129602
1.097201
1.064801
1.0324
1
0.9676
0.935199
0.902799
0.870398
0.837998
0.805597
0.773197
0.740796
Mean stress
Haigh Diagram
Durability by design
Duty cycles
Not just the
most severe
Biaxial, strain-based,
critical plane, critical
distance
Duty cycle
Stress
Strain-based,
high temp.
600
De
2
Stress (MPa)
500
1.0E-01
1.0E-02
200
1.0E-03
100
0
0
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
Strain
0.03
Fatigue
analysis
Life
Material
data
1.0E+00
400
300
1.0E-04
1.00E+00
1.00E+01
1.00E+02
1.00E+03
1.00E+04
1.00E+05
1.00E+06
1.00E+07
1.00E+08
Endurance 2Nf
Life
contours
INTERFACES
Input/output
Loading
ABAQUS .fil
ABAQUS .odb
NASTRAN f06
FEA
Design
ABAQUS, ANSYS
I-DEAS,
NASTRAN, Pro/E
Stress
results
NASTRAN op2
fe-safe
ANSYS .rst
I-DEAS .unv
Pro/M s01..., d01
General .csv
Output
Redesign
Hypermesh .hmres
PATRAN
Life
contours
FEMVIEW
CADFIX
FEMAP
Plasticity
Battelle 1947. Fatigue manual for US Navy
we should look at that portion of the
stress-strain diagram between the
beginning of the tiniest permanent
deformation and the yield strength
400
Cyclic test
350
Yield stre
0.2% proo
from tens
Stress: MPa
300
250
200
SAE1030 steel
150
100
Onset of plasticity
in fatigue
50
0.002
0.004
0.006
0.008
s
Elastic FEA
Amplitude is smaller
Mean stress is lower
ee
eas
Stress
400
2014-T6
300
200
100
0
-100
105
10 6
Life (cycles)
7
10
a
s
20
14
- Strain
T6
eas
400
SAE1030
300
200
100
0
-100
105
10 6
Life (cycles)
7
10
Stress
a
s
20
14
- Strain
T6
400
SAE1030
300
200
100
0
-100
105
10 6
Life (cycles)
7
10
s ae
s me
sm
Stress
ssaa
Strain
s ae
s me
sm
Stress
ssaa
Sa
Strain
local - elastic
S
Kt
local
notched
0
0
Sm
UTS
200
MANTEN steel
Local sae , s me
150
100
Notched Sa , Sm
Notched ductile
Kt
Local sa , s m
50
Notched brittle
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
SAE1045 steel
Stress amplitude MPa
150
Local sae , s me
100
Notched ductile
Notched Sa , Sm
Kt
Local sa , s m
50
Notched brittle
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
200
Local sae , s me
150
100
Notched Sa , Sm
Notched ductile
Local sa , s m
50
Notched brittle
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
An essential feature of fatigue analysis from elastic FEA is the plasticity correction
RESULTS
fatigue lives and crack sites
100
Survival (%)
99.9
User profile 1
User profile 2
99.8
99.7
1
10
100
1000
Miles
10000
100000
1000000
RESULTS
fatigue lives and crack sites
100
Survival (%)
99.9
User profile 1
User profile 2
99.8
99.7
1
10
100
1000
Miles
10000
100000
1000000
RESULTS
fatigue lives and crack sites
100
Survival (%)
99.9
User profile 1
User profile 2
99.8
99.7
1
10
100
1000
Miles
10000
100000
1000000
Probability of survival
Uses Weibull distribution of
fatigue strength and Gaussian
variability in load values
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Endurance
RESULTS
max stress at each node
max stress / yield stress
max stress / UTS
Test fatigue
life : 41000
miles (long cracks)
life contours
fe-safe : 27000 miles (crack initiation)
FKM-Guideline
fe-safe
METALLURGIC STUDY
Surface Effect
Default method in fe-safeTM worked well with Ra
surface finish as manufactured on the real parts.
fe-safeTM result
fe-safeTM result
fe-safe
S-N +Haigh
Fatigue life contours
300
250
400
200
Pressure
300
150
200
100
Flow Rate
100
50
0
0
20
40
60
80
100
Time (seconds)
120
140
160
180
0
200
Pressure*10 (psi)
500
Temperature
Observations
fe-safe compares well with the ASME B&PV code fatigue
procedure without need of SCLs
. it just works automatically
Mike Otto
October 14, 2008
Front Hub
SSI comprised of three simple parts.
Hubs are press fit to the drive shafts. The spring is captured within an internal pocket.
The spring winds and unwinds to absorb engine speed variation.
Spring rate is selected to isolate the supercharger from the engines torsional vibrations.
Crack
developed
here.
Surface node
Abaqus
Casting simulation
fe-safe
Contour plot
of material
properties
(Finite Difference
model)
(Finite Element
model)
A property
mapping file
is generated
Picture
Loading
Signal
g2/Hz
PSD
0.01
0.001
0.0001
0.00001
1
10
100
1000
10000
Hz
Rainflow
cycles
+
+
FEA transient
analysis
- non-proportional
N repeats
Unit load stresses x load histories
superimposed
N2 repeats
Damage (%)
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Block
fe-safe add-ons
Thermo-mechanical fatigue (/TMF)
and creep-fatigue (/TurboLife)
(example turbine blade)
fe-safe add-ons
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ABAQUS .fil
ABAQUS .odb
NASTRAN f06
FEA
Design
ABAQUS, ANSYS
I-DEAS,
NASTRAN, Pro/E
Stress
results
NASTRAN op2
fe-safe
ANSYS .rst
I-DEAS .unv
Pro/M s01..., d01
General .csv
Output
Redesign
Hypermesh .hmres
PATRAN
Life
contours
FEMVIEW
CADFIX
FEMAP
Key features
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FEA
Design
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Stress
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fe-safe
Redesign
Life
contours
COMPREHENSIVE
Complex loading
Safety factors
Probability analysis
Multiaxial fatigue
Cast iron analysis
Virtual strain gauges
High temperature fatigue
Welded joints
fe-safe/Rotate
fe-safe/TMF
fe-safe/TurboLife
Verity module in fe-safe
fe-safe/composites with
Helius:fatigue
TM
TM