ANSYS nCode

D i Lif
DesignLife

ANSYS Users Group Meeting

September 28, 2010

2010 CAE Associates

ANSYS nCode DesignLife

ANSYS now offers an advanced set of fatigue analysis capabilities built on

nCodes DesignLife technology.

Integrated with the ANSYS Workbench platform.

Provides ease of use and powerful fatigue analysis in ANSYS
ANSYS.

nCode General Information

nCode is the leading developer of fatigue analysis software in the world

world.
DesignLife is the easiest-to-use, most powerful, and most flexible
CAE/FEA fatigue and durability software in the industry.
nCode provides
pro ides advanced
ad anced fatigue
fatig e capabilities that the ANSYS Fatig
Fatigue
e
module does not contain.
nCode provides ANSYS with their DesignLife Material Library for
distribution to all customers
customers.

nCode Main Capabilities

Solvers:

Loading:

Stress-life solver for high cycle fatigue in which nominal stress controls the
fatigue.
Strain-life
Strain
life solver for low cycle fatigue in which the local elastic-plastic
elastic plastic strain
controls the fatigue.
Interpolation between material curves depending on temperature.
Constant amplitude.
Time history.
Duty cycle
cycle.
Loading sequence.

Materials:

Fatigue material library included

included.
Create, edit or import material data.

ANSYS nCode Demonstration

Demonstration problem:

Fatigue analysis of a shaft under combined bending and torsion.