Metal components subjected to repeated cycles of loading and unloading can fail even though the maximum stresses developed are well below safe static values. This failure - commonly known as fatigue failure

Pro/ENGINEER Fatigue Advisor can bolster product reliability by enabling engineers to predict and improve the fatigue performance of their designs. This reduces design iterations and costly test programs, while improving product durability.

Key Benefits:

• Reduce product warranty costs by creating more durable products
• Eliminate lengthy, costly physical prototyping phases of design validation
• Improve product quality and durability using embedded optimization technology
• Identify design issues requiring improvement early, when the cost of change is minimal
• Design with more confidence throughout the product lifecycle

Features & Specifications:

Results of Fatigue Analysis

• Accurately predict the life of the product by determining the number of cycles to failure
• Represent Confidence of Life as a fringe display showing the ratio between the calculated life and the target design life

Load history definition tools

• Constant Amplitude, Variable Amplitude
• Support for fatigue-specifi c measures

Design optimisation

• Achieve desired measure result values through Optimization studies, or investigate ‘what-if’ scenarios via Sensitivity studies
• Track incremental improvements accurately
• Ability to model surface finish and treatment effects on the durability of the design.

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