Hello SwYmers,

My name is Samantha Peck and I am the User Experience Specialist focusing on strategic alliances for DS SIMULIA. Going forward I will be posting “Partner Spotlights” on the community in order to introduce everyone to our complementary solutions.

SIMULIA has a wide variety of software partners which allows for the delivery of complementary solutions that can be integrated into SIMULIA technologies and products covering a broad range of industry segments and application domains. Safe Technology Ltd is one such partner that offers a solution in its product fe-safe®. This allows fast, easy and accurate fatigue life predictions for FE models, includes a full signal processing suite (safe4fatigue™) and advanced loading definition and analysis capabilities. It also includes specialist add-on modules covering thermo-mechanical fatigue, creep fatigue, the analysis of rotating components and welded joints (Verity® Structural Stress Method). The latest add-on modules which are unique to the industry are: fe-safe/Rubber™ for fatigue of elastomers, fe-safe/Composites™ (for unidirectional and now additionally, woven fibre composites) and fe-safe/True-Load™(for loading management and in situ load measurement. Abaqus is currently the only FEA to which it interfaces). Additionally, fe-safe/Rotate™ (for the fatigue of rotating components) is no longer an ‘add-on’ but is included in standard fe-safe®. Dassault Systemes Simulia  resells the fe-safe® product line and all the add-on modules. For more information contact your local sales office.

Key features include, but are not limited to:

•   Calculates fatigue lives at every point on a model, producing contour plots to reveal fatigue lives and crack sites. Critical points need not be missed

•    Determines how much the stresses must be changed in order to achieve a target design life showing clearly where the component is under strength, or where material and weight can be saved

•   Estimates warranty claim curves based on probabilities of failure

•   Calculates which parts of the service duty are most damaging and which could be omitted from a fatigue test

•   Identifies non-critical loads at significant points on a model. In prototype testing this could mean tests using fewer loads and therefore fewer actuators

•   Unique calculation of the fatigue life of welded joints using the Verity® Structural Stress method

•   Unique calculation of composite materials using the physics based methods available in fe-safe/Composites

•   Efficient analysis of large Finite Element models using distributed and parallel processing

•   Takes in account manufacturing effects such as residual stresses from a stamped or formed part or the temperature variation effects of castings and forgings

If you are interested in learning more about Safe Technology you can browse their website and search for fe-safe® papers.

Additionally, Safe Technology offers training classes and seminars in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A few of the offerings can be found in the document attached to this post. You can find the full schedule here.

Thanks!

Samantha