Since being created to help car manufacturers in the 1950s, fatigue management software has developed from being an in-house pet project to a viable commercial product. These days, many large ...

A typical microstructure (grain structure at the micron scale) of metallic material. (Courtesy: J Stinville) The tiniest defects in a metal can cause it to fail, but predicting when this so-called ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 3 (June 2014), pp. 545-552 (8 pages) ABSTRACT Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) offer a good balance of strength, durability, ...

Fatigue life is a key concern in welded-steel frames for mobile equipment that experience large and varying dynamic loads. For engineers who design welded-steel structures subject to dynamic loading, ...

Solid-state lithium batteries fail for the same reason over-bent paperclips snap – metal fatigue in the anode itself, according to a new study. The findings, which show that this fatigue follows ...

Fatigue analysis of high-speed train bogie frames is a critical field that ensures both the safety and longevity of railway vehicles. The bogie frame, which forms a central part of the undercarriage ...

A few guidelines show how to correctly use FEA stresses to find reasonable margins of safety. Although finite-element analysis has become an indispensable part of engineering, a few users knock it ...