Durability and Fatigue Life Estimation

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Loading Time History Management and Manipulation using PTIME: Increase your familiarity with the time history creation and manipulation facilities in P3/FATIGUE. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Materials Data and Using the Materials Database Manager, PFMAT: Increase your familiarity with P3/FATIGUE material data base manager. The materials database has a structure which supports all types of materials data associated with fatigue life estimation. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Total Life (S-N) Analysis of Keyhole Specimen: Learn the basics of Component Normal Stress Life Analysis and use it to calculate the fatigue life for a keyhole model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Total Life Analysis of a Simple Bracket: Test your S-N Analysis knowledge with an exercise on a simple bracket model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Critical Initiation Analysis of the Keyhole Specimen: Learn the basics of Critical Initiation Analysis and use it to calculate the life to initiate a fatigue crack on a keyhole model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Crack Initiation Analysis of a Plate Assembly: Test your Crack Initiation Analysis knowledge with an exercise on a plate assembly model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Fatigue Analysis of a Hinge: Conduct a Fatigue Analysis on a hinge model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Crack Growth (LEFM) Analysis of the Keyhole Specimen: Study the crack growth behavior of the SAE keyhole model. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Fatigue Analysis of a LUG Assembly: Use all three methods of Fatigue life estimation to design the lug assembly. (Pat318) PC, Unix
Additional Exercises: Present additional challenges to the examples listed above. (Pat318) PC, Unix