{"id":279623,"date":"2023-04-15T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/cyclical-loading-and-fatigue-tool\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T15:12:03","slug":"cyclical-loading-and-fatigue-tool","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/cyclical-loading-and-fatigue-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclical Loading and Fatigue Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to analyse a structure for fatigue failure using ansys. The structure has both a constant load applied to it, as well as two identical oscillating loads acting at different locations (so the loading condition would be of the type R &gt; 0). How do I set up these oscillating forces and the fatigue study such that I can see how many loading cycles (i.e. oscillations) the structure can withstand?<\/p>\n<p>How does the fatigue tool know what to count as one cycle, should I input this? At the moment my &#8216;Life&#8217; solution just shows the whole model as being able to withstand 10^8 cycles which I think might be unrealistic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have already added S-N curve data to the engineering data.<\/p>\n<p>I am new to Ansys and any help would be much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-279623","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-fatigue","topic-tag-fatigue-analysis","topic-tag-fatiguefailure-1","topic-tag-oscillating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["282294","240"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.214"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["3344"],"_edit_lock":["1681571448:214787"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["279623"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","282294"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["279988"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["279988"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-04-18 09:13:27"]},"test":"l-westerburgburrgmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/279623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/279623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}