S-Life Plastics by PART Engineering

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Why Strength Assessment of Plastic Components?

S-Life Plastics performs short-term, long-term, and fatigue strength assessments for unreinforced and reinforced thermoplastic components using FEA results. Requiring only the local stress tensor from the FE solver alongside basic material and loading inputs, it delivers static and cyclic utilization ratios as contour plots, with per-node numerical reports available for documentation.

Benefits

Few Material Properties Required: For common polymers, an integrated and extendable polymer material database is included and an easy procedure to add data is provided.
Easy and Fast: Prevent mistakes through simple handling and time saving through automated determination of critical load case combinations if multiple loads are applied.
Reliable Procedure: S-Life Plastics conducts influencing factors onto the local component strength, like multiaxiality, aging, condition, temperature, and load duration.

Featured Capabilities

Interfaces

S-Life Plastics interfaces to Simcenter OptiStruct, Simcenter Radioss, Abaqus, ANSYS Mechanical, MSC Nastran, MSC Marc, and Simcenter Nastran.

Material Database

Integrated and extendable polymer material database with more than 1,000 stress strain curves and other material properties are available.

Strength Assessment Made Easy

S-Life Plastics provides automatic identification of critical load case combinations and output of static and cyclic utilization ratios as contour plot. It also consolidates results from different FEA into a single model.

Standardized Procedure

S-Life Plastics offers a standardized automated procedures for short-term, long-term, and fatigue strength assessment of plastic components.

Nodal Output Reporting

S-Life Plastics provides comprehensive reporting of nodal output values.