Autodesk Algor Simulation customers on Autodesk Subscription can now receive Fatigue Wizard, software that provides step-by-step guidance through the steps required to perform complex fatigue analysis and to design for durability. Users can choose between stress- and strain-based analysis types; specify material information using an extensive, editable database; and enter data to simulate real-world conditions, such as local stress concentrations and surface-finish effects. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Autodesk, Inc. also recently announced that it has enhanced its Algor Simulation Software portfolio, making available to customers a fatigue analysis capability that can help improve the durability and safety of products. Customers with a subscription to Autodesk Algor Simulation will receive Fatigue Wizard, which uses a wizard interface to guide designers and engineers through the steps required to perform complex fatigue analysis. The software is said to add extra functionality and ease of use to the Autodesk Algor Simulation line of products, part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping offering.
Fatigue analysis is vital for products such as steel rails, beams, girders, and rotating stepped shafts that can experience mechanical failure under repeated or varying loads. Autodesk says that Fatigue Wizard helps to predict fatigue-based failure and helps users design for durability by subjecting a product to cyclic stresses to determine its endurance limit and thereby increase safety.
Users can access Fatigue Wizard functionality through a menu option in Autodesk Algor Simulation products. From there, Fatigue Wizard provides step-by-step guidance through the process of setting up a fatigue analysis. Users can choose between stress- and strain-based analysis types; specify material information using an extensive, editable database; and enter data to simulate real-world conditions, such as local stress concentrations and surface-finish effects.
“Fatigue Wizard makes complex fatigue life assessment both achievable and affordable,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president, Manufacturing Industry Group at Autodesk, in a statement announcing the enhancement. “The benefits of performing durability tests as part of the design process are well known. Fatigue Wizard will help those customers who previously may not have had the skills or budgets to realize these benefits firsthand.”
Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com) develops design and engineering software that’s used by manufacturers to “experience their ideas digitally before they are built.” The company also develops software for the building and construction, media, and entertainment industries.
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