April 17, 2024 at 1:08 pm
danielshaw
Ansys Employee
Are you using Ansys nCode DesignLife? If so, the values in the time series file represents scale factors applied to the FE stresses. The fatigue life is calcuated as repeats of that loading sequence (repeats of the applied time series). The time associated with the time series is only important if you want to relate the predicted number of loading cycles to time. The actual time of the individual scale factors within the time series is not relevant.