SIMULIA fe-safe
Fatigue and durability evaluation to predict and analyze product life.
Durability Analysis Software for Finite Element Models
SIMALIA fe-safe is the technical leader in fatigue analysis software for Finite Element models and is capable of meeting its users’ most demanding applications. It directly interfaces to all leading FEA suites and is used by leading companies in the transport and mobility, aerospace and defense, general manufacturing, power generation, marine and offshore industries worldwide to determine fatigue life and optimize designs. fe-safe is renowned for its accuracy, speed and ease of use.
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SIMALIA fe-safe has been developed continuously since the early 1990’s in collaboration with industry to ensure that it continues to set the benchmark for fatigue analysis software. It was the first commercially available software to focus on modern multi-axial strain based fatigue methods and the first to incorporate capabilities for non-metallic materials. SIMALIA fe-safe analyses metals and composite materials, elastomers, thermo-mechanical and creep fatigue and employs the Verity® structural stress method or the fatigue analysis of welded joints – the only commercial software to incorporate this methodology.
With SIMALIA fe-safe as an integrated part of the design process, customers have the ability to:
- accurately identify fatigue hotspots
- optimize designs to use less material
- reduce product recalls and warranty costs
- validate design and test programs
- improve correlation between test and analysis within a single user interface
- reduce prototype test times
- speed up analysis times, thereby reducing man-time hours
- increase confidence that your product designs pass their test schedules as “right first time”
Key Benefits
Fast
- Assemblies of different parts, surface finishes and materials can be analyzed in a single run - fe-safe automatically changes the method of analysis as it moves from one material to another. Contour plots showing the fatigue life at each node, the factor of strength, and probabilities of survival can all be calculated in the same run
- Highly efficient coding, native 64 bit code, parallel and distributed processing allow fe-safe to analyze large finite element models and report results quickly. Parallel processing over up to 8 cores is included as standard. Distributed processing sees near linear speed increases
Accurate
- Advanced multiaxial algorithms are the core of fe-safe
- Unique nodal elimination methods ensure no trade-off between speed and accuracy
- Users consistently report excellent correlation with test results. Continuous development ensures fe-safe maintains its position as the technology leader
Easy to Use
- fe-safe has many default settings
- fe-safe automatically selects the most appropriate algorithm based on the selected material
- Standard analyses can be saved making it ideal for the non-specialist fatigue analyst
- Equivalent specifications in the materials database allow searching on US, European, Japanese and Chinese standards
- Highly configurable for the advanced user
- Direct interfaces to leading FEA suites such as Abaqus, ANSYS, I-deas, Nastran (MSC, NEi, NX) and Pro/Mechanica are driven from an intuitive, single screen, Windows-based GUI
Additional Information
*SIMALIA fe-safe is not within the scope of the ISO Certification.
*SIMALIA fe-safe is not within the scope of the ISO Certification.
