Direct Transient Fatigue Analysis

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edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello, I´m experimenting with optistruct and I am trying to do a direct transient analysis combined with a fatigue analysis but I am struggling with the setup, since the loading comes from a .csv file I made with a sinusoidal shape and magnitude and just place a force of magnitude 1 acting on a component. the direct transient analysis setup is correct and runs, but there's an error with my fatigue setup, does someone know how to set up a fatigue analysis from a direct transient analysis? or have some documentation?

 

Thanks!

 

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  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited October 2019

    Please look at attached model.Note that FATLOAD for transient won’t reference TABFAT because the time history is directly available from the analysis.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited October 2019

    Many thanks for your help Rahul!

  • truongak97
    truongak97 Altair Community Member
    edited November 2019
    Altair Forum User said:

    Many thanks for your help Rahul!

    Hi RodrigoPadilla
    I'm having the same problem. 
    Did your fatigue analysis work? Could you please share you fem file?

  • Jaseguras
    Jaseguras Altair Community Member
    edited December 2019

    Hello Rahul,

     

    I have a question regarding to Simulation of Direct Transient Fatigue Analysis. I already ran a Simulation using NLSTA (quasi-static) and used that loadcase to predict damage in Fatigue.

     

    Now I am trying to do the same but using a Non-linear transient instead of quasi-static. However, I got the next error:

     

    GateRel in FATPARM is too large

     

    It doesn't matter how much I decrease the value of GateRel in FATPARM, I always got the same error.

     

    It's important to highlight that the Non-linear transient response run without any problem.

     

    Do you have any comments or suggestions that could help me?

     

    Thank you in advance for your kind comments.

     

    Sincerely,

     

    José Segura

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