Our fe-safe team is working to give you the insights you want whether you are just starting to use fe-safe or if you've used it for years. This includes several dozen questions and answers on our Knowledge Base, as well as links to frequently requested information on simulia.com. Find a curated list of fe-safe answers below.
Source Types
| Web | Web page |
| KB | Q&A article in the 3DS Knowledge Base |
| Files | Material shipped with the installation media [only available for customers] |
General Information
Web: fe-safe product page on simulia.com
KB: Technical references on the theory of fatigue
KB: Understanding fe-safe terminology
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Web: Support Contact in Your Region
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Installation and Licensing
Web: Supported Platforms and Release Compatibility for fe-safe 6.5 and earlier
BR: Using an environment variable to direct fe-safe clients to an Abaqus Flexnet License Server
KB: DSLS Support for fe-safe and other established products
FEA Models
KB: Position naming in fe-safe v Abaqus
KB: What to know about plasticity for FEA Fatigue in fe-safe
Materials
Web: fe-safe plug-in for Nitinol fatigue
KB: Creating new materials in fe-safe 6.4-02
KB: Estimating S-N curves from strain-life parameters in fe-safe
KB: Material properties for fe-safe/Rubber
KB: Searching for materials data in the fe-safe Materials Database
KB: Finding fatigue properties for fe-safe
KB: Using cyclic stress-strain curves with kinematic hardening plasticity in Abaqus (one backstress)
KB: Multilinear kinematic hardening model for cyclic plasticity (in Abaqus)
Loading
KB: Loading for a real-life oil-and-gas application
KB: Creating transient dynamic loading in fe-safe
KB: Creating a modal transient analysis in fe-safe from ANSYS
KB: Creating harmonic loading in fe-safe from ANSYS results
KB: Loading limitations with the uniaxial strain-life algorithm
KB: Setting repeats on a load block in fe-safe to zero
KB: Tutorial for fe-safe/Rotate using Abaqus
Webinar: PSD Fatigue in fe-safe
Automating Analysis
KB: Configuration of settings to automate fe-safe analyses in a macro file
KB: Automating the use of fe-safe/Rotate with Abaqus output database files
Advanced Considerations
KB: Accounting for residual stresses in fe-safe
KB: Choosing between FOS and FRF in fe-safe fatigue factor calculations
KB: Do I need to run a plasticity correction outside fe-safe
KB: What to know about plasticity for FEA Fatigue in fe-safe
KB: Frequency dependence in fe-safe calculations
KB: Gating stress tensors in fe-safe
KB: Using the Theory of Critical Distances to estimate the fatigue life of notched specimens
Add-on modules
Web: fe-safe/Rubber 30-min webinar
Web: Fatigue of Elastomers and fe-safe/Rubber 2-hour eSeminar
Bug: Structural Stress is wrong on second order model in automatic weld finder for shells
KB: How to define spot welds by group
KB: Editing materials in the Verity database
KB: Material properties for fe-safe/Rubber
KB: Will fe-safe/Rubber work for my material
KB: Using Verity to analyze welds per ASME Section VIII, Division 2 Weld Fatigue
Standards and specifications
KB: Does fe-safe support British Standard 7910?
KB: Does fe-safe conform to the DNV-RP-C203 standard?
Post-Processing and Viewing
KB: Automatically setting fe-safe post-processing options in Abaqus/Viewer or Abaqus/CAE
KB: How to determine damage per loading event or block in fe-safe
KB: Post-processing fe-safe output using Abaqus/Viewer
KB: Hex-nugget spot welds in Abaqus
KB: Post-processing Critical plane vectors from fe-safe 6.5-01 in Abaqus/CAE
KB: Using vector exports from fe-safe in Ansys Mechanical APDL
BR: Trouble post-processing Verity results on second order solids in Abaqus/CAE
Process Integration & Optimization
KB: Integrating Abaqus, Tosca, and fe-safe
KB: Integration of fe-safe 6.4-03 in Tosca Structure 8.1.0
fe-safe Training Courses
Web: Introduction to fe-safe software training
Web: Automating Analysis in fe-safe
Web: Fatigue of welds in fe-safe
Web: Introduction to fe-safe/Rubber (Abaqus+fe-safe software class)
Web: Tosca Structure.durability course (Abaqus+ fe-safe +Tosca software class)
Web: Request a Training course from DS SIMULIA
Web: Find an Education Partner in your area
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