Fatigue analysis software gains cast iron database

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 30, 2004

A new cast iron database is available for the fe-safe durability analysis software suite.

Safe Technology has been granted a licence to use the AFS cast iron database from the research report "Strain-life fatigue properties database for cast iron" in its state-of-the-art durability analysis software suite for finite element models, fe-safe.

Safe Technology is a technical leader in the design and development of durability analysis software that pushes the boundaries of fatigue analysis software to ensure greater accuracy and confidence in modern fatigue analysis methods for industrial applications.

The availability of the AFS database within fe-safe ensures that users will have access to the most up-to-date and accurate cast-iron materials data for their durability analyses.

The AFS Ductile Iron and the Gray Iron Research Committees have developed a strain-life fatigue properties database for cast iron.

This database represents the capability of the domestic casting industry and is available as a special AFS publication.

It is the culmination of a five-year effort in partnership with the DOE Industrial Technology Programme.

The scope of this information includes 22 carefully specified and produced castings from ASTM/SAE standard grades of irons, including austempered grey iron (AGI) (specification is under development).

Each grade is comprehensively characterised from an authoritative source with chemical analysis, microstructure analysis, hardness tests, monotonic tension tests, and compression tests.

This information is contained in user-friendly digital files on two CD-ROMs for importing into computer aided design software.