Progressive Fatigue Analyses

Predict the cycles to failure of a composite material under a prescribed load history.

Within Simulation Composite Analysis, this feature is used to aid in progressive fatigue analyses. This is accomplished by damaging the composite material with the minimum cycles to failure and allowing the finite element platform to redistribute loading to the adjacent material. Following this fashion, a composite structure can be analyzed within a finite element platform, and the cycles to failure for the structure can be estimated.

Note: The progressive fatigue feature is not supported for Linux clusters.