You can specify an algorithm that describes finite life or infinite life for the material in your model. The applicable mean stress correction models and fatigue reserve factor envelope models are described with their effect on the model. Brown-MillerThe Brown-Miller algorithm is a strain-based critical plane multiaxial fatigue algorithm based on the strain-life curve defined by the equation: If only the stress field from an elastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, a multiaxial elastic-plastic (Neuber) correction based on the Ramberg-Osgood cyclic plasticity equation is used to calculate elastic-plastic stresses and strains from the (pseudo-elastic) stresses. If an elastic-plastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, the algorithm uses the stresses plus either the sum of the elastic and plastic strains or the total mechanical strains from the FEA. For more information, see Section 15, "Fatigue analysis of elastic-plastic FEA results," in the fe-safe USER GUIDE. Candidate planes are perpendicular to the surface and at 45 degrees to the surface, and are spaced 10 degrees apart about the surface normal. For each candidate plane, the fatigue life is calculated as follows:
The fatigue life reported is the shortest of the lives calculated for all candidate planes. For finite life analysis, Morrow, User-defined, or no mean stress correction may be selected. See Section 14.9 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for a definition of the user-defined MSC. For the Morrow mean stress correction, the strain-life equation is modified to: For infinite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, or a User-defined mean stress correction may be selected. The Brown-Miller algorithm is the default fatigue algorithm for most ductile materials in the DS-ElasticFatigue.3dxml material briefcase. See the Fatigue Theory Reference Manual, Section 7, for the background to this algorithm. Normal StrainThe Normal Strain algorithm is a strain-based critical plane multiaxial fatigue algorithm based on the strain-life curve defined by the equation: If only the stress field from an elastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, a multiaxial elastic-plastic (Neuber) correction based on the Ramberg-Osgood cyclic plasticity equation is used to calculate elastic-plastic stresses and strains from the (psuedoelastic) stresses. If an elastic-plastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, the algorithm uses the stresses plus either the sum of the elastic and plastic strains or the total mechanical strains from the FEA. For more information, see Section 15 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE. Candidate planes are perpendicular to the surface and are spaced 10 degrees apart about the surface normal. For each candidate plane, the fatigue life is calculated as follows:
The fatigue life reported is the shortest of the lives calculated for all candidate planes. For finite life analysis, Morrow, Walker, Smith-Watson-Topper, User-defined, or no mean stress correction may be selected. See Section 14.9 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for a definition of the user-defined MSC. For the Smith-Watson-Topper mean stress correction, the strain-life equation is modified to: For the Morrow mean stress correction, the strain-life equation is modified to: For infinite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, or a User-defined mean stress correction may be selected. Cast IronThe Cast Iron fatigue algorithm is similar to the Normal Strain method, but with the following differences tailored to cast irons:
For finite life analysis, Smith-Watson-Topper or a user-defined mean stress correction may be selected. Maximum Shear StrainThe Maximum Shear Strain algorithm is a strain-based critical plane multiaxial fatigue algorithm based on the strain-life curve defined by the equation: If only the stress field from an elastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, a multiaxial elastic-plastic (Neuber) correction based on the Ramberg-Osgood cyclic plasticity equation is used to calculate elastic-plastic stresses and strains from the (psuedoelastic) stresses. If an elastic-plastic FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, the algorithm uses the stresses plus either the sum of the elastic and plastic strains or the total mechanical strains from the FEA. For more information, see Section 15 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE. Candidate planes are 45 degrees to the surface and spaced 10 degrees apart about the surface normal. For each candidate plane, the fatigue life is calculated as follows:
The fatigue life reported is the shortest of the lives calculated for all candidate planes. For finite life analysis, Morrow, user-defined, or no mean stress correction may be selected. See Section 14.9 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for a definition of the user-defined MSC. With the Morrow mean stress correction, the strain-life equation is modified to: Normal StressThe Normal Stress algorithm is a stress-based critical plane multiaxial fatigue algorithm based on the stress-life curve defined by the equation: The stress-life curve is often defined by S-N data pairs. Only the stress field from the FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, whether the FEA is elastic or elastic-plastic. For more information, see Section 15 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE. Candidate planes are perpendicular to the surface and are spaced 10° apart about the surface normal. For each candidate plane, the fatigue life is calculated as follows:
The fatigue life reported is the shortest of the lives calculated for all candidate planes. For finite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, Walker, Morrow, Smith-Watson-Topper, R-ratio S-N curves, user-defined, or no mean stress correction may be selected. See Section 14.9 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for a definition of the user-defined MSC. For infinite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, R-ratio S-N curves, or a user-defined mean stress correction may be selected. von MisesThis option is a signed von Mises stress-based multiaxial fatigue algorithm based on the stress-life curve defined by the equation: The stress-life curve is often defined by S-N data pairs. Only the stress field from the FEA is used to drive the fatigue analysis, whether the FEA is elastic or elastic-plastic. For more information, see Section 15 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE. Fatigue damage is accumulated per Miner's rule. For finite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, Walker, Morrow, Smith-Watson-Topper, R-ratio S-N curves, user-defined, or no mean stress correction may be selected. See Section 14.9 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for a definition of the user-defined MSC. For infinite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, R-ratio S-N curves, or a user-defined mean stress correction may be selected. Two methods are provided to allocate a sign to the von Mises stress before cycle counting is performed:
The lack of a sign for the von Mises stress makes it unreliable to identify fatigue cycles correctly. Consider the following sequence of stress states (both almost pure shear), where a large shear (or torsional) stress reverses fully while a very small direct (axial) stress remains constant:
In this case, both signed von Mises options fail to identify any fatigue cycles because the principal stress with the largest magnitude is +100.05 for both stress states and the sum of the direct stresses is +0.1 for both stress states. Manson McKnight OctahedralThe Manson McKnight Octahedral fatigue algorithm is a stress-based multiaxial fatigue model based on the concept of a signed von Mises stress, but it uses a cycle counting method that is more reliable than the simple von Mises method. See section 14.7 of the fe-safe USER GUIDE for the details. It is a partial implementation of the NASALife software described in the https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140010774.pdf (J. Z. Gyekensi, P. L. Murthy and S. K. Mital, "NASALIFE – Component Fatigue and Creep Life Prediction Program," National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, 2005). The SIMULIA implementation is limited to the simplest Manson-McKnight algorithm, and it does not address creep at all. Uniaxial Strain LifeThe Uniaxial Strain Life algorithm is a strain-life method that is similar to the Normal Strain method, with the following differences:
For finite life analysis, Morrow, Walker, Smith-Watson-Topper, or no mean stress correction may be selected. Uniaxial Stress LifeThe Uniaxial Stress Life fatigue algorithm is a stress-life method is similar to the Normal Stress method, with the following differences:
For finite life analysis, Goodman, Gerber, Walker, or no mean stress correction may be selected. |