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April 10, 2024 at 1:41 pm
danielshaw
Ansys Employee
Yes, DesignLife will multiply the FE stress by the values in the time series file to obtain the total stresses. It will then rainflow count the full set of stresses to obtain the approporiate stress ranges and mean stresses to be used in the fatigue evaluation.