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ultimate design load

ultimate design load

It would be very useful if Fusion 360 would be able to determine Lult, the ultimate design load of a component.  This value is essential to performing lifetime fatigue studies using rainflow counting techniques and most often it's value is unknown.  A description of it can be found in MLife, a program from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) at https://nwtc.nrel.gov/system/files/MLife_Theory.pdf.  If possible, Lult would be determined by Fusion 360 either from a force along an axis or a moment about an axis of the part.  The advantage in knowing Lult is that simulated lifetime fatigue studies can use Lult to determine the expected lifetime of a part, or conversely so that parts can be designed with a desired lifetime based upon knowing the simulated lifetime loads on the part.

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broken link - extra dot at the end of https://nwtc.nrel.gov/system/files/MLife_Theory.pdf [AD: bugreport for autolinker 🙂 ]

 

With any sort of simulation (especially in the hands of novices), I'm always skeptical about it giving useful and non-misleading results, but, assuming this could be made to work reliably with a simple UI, it'd be very cool.

colin.smith
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