You identify if you need to run a fatigue analysis of a vehicle suspension assembly using the Fatigue Check plot. The Fatigue Check plot, which is based on calculations of alternating stress and material endurance limits, shows regions of the model susceptible to fatigue failure and regions that are safe. To assess in detail the performance of your model under repeated cycles of loading, you should set up a Fatigue study.
The assembly components are subjected to loads due to the vehicle moving on a smooth road and turning on a banked curve.
In this tutorial, you learn to:
- Identify unsafe regions of the assembly due to fatigue with a Fatigue Check plot.
- Define a constant-amplitude fatigue event
- Interpret fatigue results
