Siemens PLM Software NX Durability Wizard Quickly predict product fatigue

Benefits Summary The wizard guides you through these simple • Improves robustness by NX™ Durability Wizard guides you in vali- steps to assess durability of your model: predicting the life of dating your product’s structural integrity 1. Choose the structural solution contain- product designs and over its entire lifecycle. NX Durability ing the loading conditions. You can use determining which design Wizard is an add-on module to either NX linear stress or strain results in static features are over- or Modeling, NX Design Simulation or NX solutions from the NX Stress Wizard, NX under-designed Advanced Simulation that uses stresses or ®, MSC Nastran, Abaqus or . strains from static solutions to examine • Reduces physical testing product durability, helping you to establish 2. Define the cyclic loadings that define the costs by allowing you to which parts are over- or under-designed. duty cycle of the part over its lifetime. analyze product life in a Contour plots of fatigue life and safety Parameters you can define include virtual environment factors make it easy to understand durabil- number of cycles, scaling factor, and • Accelerates product design ity issues. loading pattern. by allowing designers to A simple and flexible way to predict a quickly perform what-if product’s strength and durability “re-analysis” of new designs Structural fatigue analysis is used to predict to understand the impact design life and durability. Designers and of changes on product structural analysts can check whether durability in-service loadings are likely to cause early failure in parts subjected to cyclic loads. The NX Durability Wizard provides an intui- tive, guided process for designers and less experienced CAE users, enabling them to predict the strength and fatigue safety of products subjected to prescribed cyclic loading.

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3. Define the results you wish to compute. You can compute static safety factors, fatigue safety factors and fatigue life. 4. Define durability parameters and launch the durability solution. You can select the fatigue criterion you want for the fatigue life calculation: Smith-Watson- Topper, strain or stress life. 5. Display contour plots on your FE model. You can display contour plots for strength safety factor, fatigue safety factor or fatigue life. 6. Prepare a technical durability report in a spreadsheet. You can export results to an Excel spreadsheet for further evalua- • Run from NX Design Simulation or NX tion or to share with other members in Advanced Simulation to leverage stress your organization. results from third-party solvers • Leverage geometry associativity to 7. Save time with “what-if” redesigns. The quickly evaluate the impact of changing durability solution remains associated to geometrical features on fatigue your model and geometry, allowing you resistance to rerun the solution with different dura- • Enable NX Advanced Durability to re-use bility criteria so you can see their effects events automatically created by the on your product. Furthermore, as your Durability Wizard design changes, you can easily rerun your durability analyses to see how your Solutions and supported solvers design changes impact durability • Supports stress (high-cycle) and strain performance. (low-cycle) approaches Contact • Supports stress results from NX Stress Siemens PLM Software General features for the NX Durability Wizard, NX Nastran, MSC Nastran, Americas +1 314 264 8499 Wizard include: Abaqus or ANSYS Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 NX Integration Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 Postprocessing • Designers can run from within NX • Contour plots for fatigue life, damage www.siemens.com/plm Modeling leveraging results from the and safety factors NX Stress Wizard to compute fatigue • Durability reports © 2015 Siemens Product Lifecycle and strength metrics at preliminary Management Software Inc. Siemens design stages and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, , Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, NX, , Solid Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter and Tecnomatix are trademarks or registered trade- marks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. Nastran is a regis- tered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All other logos, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders. 21335-Y3 1/15 C