{"id":309322,"date":"2023-09-28T18:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/309322\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:39:15","slug":"309322","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/309322\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Calculating Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

<p class=”MsoNormal”>Walking you through a complete Ansys nCode DesignLife fatigue analysis is beyond the scope of this forum.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>I can only provide some guidance.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>In addition, there are multiple acceptable approaches.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>I cannot know the best approach without obtaining more details.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>I recommend searching AIS for the “Introduction to Ansys nCode DesignLife “training course.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>That training course will explain how to set up an Ansys nCode DesignLife time series analysis.<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>I also recommend reviewing the first 2 Worked Examples in the Ansys DesignLife Help (see below).<\/p><p class=”MsoNormal”>If you are using 22R1 or later, I recommend using the Ansys nCode DesignLife Mechanical Add-On (WE#1).<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>If you are using an early release, I recommend using the Ansys nCode DesignLife Workbench Integrated systems (WE#2).<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>You can also use the HBK standalone Glyphworks interface, but I do believe that approach is required and it requires more DesignLife knowledge.<\/p><p class=”MsoNormal”>A quick summary of the required steps.<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>1.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Run Mechanical model with 2 load steps:<span style=”mso-spacerun: yes;”>  <\/span>static moment and unit acceleration<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>2.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Store the acceleration load multipliers as a single column time history file in the appropriate format (ASCII for embedded Add-On and .s3t for the Integrated systems)<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>3.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Choose the appropriate set-up for a time-series analysis (depends on the interface)<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>4.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Choose time-series load mapper and read in Mechanical result sets<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>5.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Set the moment result in the load mapper to be “static”<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>6.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Associate the acceleration load step in the load mapper with the time history file.<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>7.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Specify the appropriate mean stress method<\/p><p class=”MsoListParagraphCxSpLast” style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;”><span style=”mso-list: Ignore;”>8.<span style=”font: 7.0pt ‘Times New Roman’;”>       <\/span><\/span><\/span><!–[endif]–>Solve.<\/p><p class=”MsoNormal”><\/p><p> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-309322","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/309322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/309322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}