fe-safe

fe-safe is a powerful, comprehensive, and easy-to-use program for fatigue analysis from finite element models. With fe-safe you can calculate where fatigue cracks will occur, when fatigue cracks will initiate and whether cracks will propagate, factors of strength on working stresses (for rapid optimization), and probabilities of survival at multiple service lives (“warranty claim” curve).

Results from fatigue calculations can be exported to various FEA results formats and displayed as contour plots when imported in FEA viewers.

The fe-safe documentation set includes the following:

fe-safe User Guide
This guide includes detailed descriptions of how to use fe-safe for fatigue analysis from finite element models.
Appendices
The Appendices supplement the fe-safe user guide.
Tutorials
These tutorials outline basic fe-safe functionality in an example-based learning format.
Fatigue Theory Reference
This guide provides a comprehensive treatment of the theories and engineering concepts related to fatigue analysis.
Signal Processing Reference
This guide covers basic concepts of signal processing such as Fourier analysis, digital filters, and frequency response functions.
External Material Database
This guide describes the fe-safe external material database, which contains the following components: Database Server, Search Client, and Material database files.
High-Performance Computing with fe-safe
This guide describes how to utilize the Distributed Memory Processing (DMP) framework to enable the distribution of analysis jobs to remote server nodes in a network cluster and, hence, reduce the analysis time.
Verity Module in fe-safe
This guide describes how to use the Verity module with the fe-safe fatigue analysis software. Verity computes equivalent structural stresses for welds based on the Battelle Structural Stress Method. Tutorials that outline the use of Verity for welded structures are included at the end of this guide.
fe-safe/Rubber
This guide describes how to use the Rubber module with the fe-safe analysis software to predict fatigue life for elastomer materials. Descriptions of various hyperelastic material models are included in this guide.
fe-safe/Rubber Tutorials
These tutorials outline how to perform a fatigue analysis of elastomer materials using the fe-safe/Rubber module.
fe-safe/TURBOlife
This guide describes how to use the TURBOlife module with the fe-safe analysis software to assess creep damage, fatigue damage, and creep fatigue interactions. With the TURBOlife module you can perform crack initiation calculations due to combined creep and fatigue damage for engineering components under thermo-mechanical loadings.
fe-safe Component for Isight
This guide describes how to include an fe-safe analysis as part of a simulation workflow in Isight. Tutorials that outline how to perform an fe-safe analysis within a simulation workflow in Isight are included at the end of this guide.
fe-safe Extension for ANSYS® Workbench
This guide describes the fe-safe extension for ANSYS® Workbench. Tutorials that outline how to perform an fe-safe analysis inside a project schematic in ANSYS Workbench are included at the end of this guide.
Installation & Licensing
This guide discusses how to install the fe-safe suite of products in a Windows or Linux environment.