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Re: Fatigue Study Error
do you have a static, nonlinear or linear dynamic analysis to use in your fatigue? the basis of the fatigue analysis is one of those studies. there should be a tutorial on this in the tutorials section and also should be covered in the help.
http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks/cworks/Performing_Fatigue_Analysis.htm
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Re: Fatigue Study Error
I believe so, I looked at all the tutorials to no avail. I guess I dont know what exactly needs to be done for a static, nonlinear or linear dynamic analysis. My team is building a baja frame for competition and have already completed static analysis on the frame. Is that what fulfills the static analysis?
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Re: Fatigue Study Error
Hi Bryan: Yes Jared is correct. You need at least one study which functions as the 'basis' for the fatigue. Your static study should be available in the fatigue drop-down to use for the basis. Then, tell it how many cycles and the type of cycling (fully reversed loading, one-sided loading, ratio loading, etc.). When you run the fatigue, it will cycle the static stress results from the "base" study.
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Re: Fatigue Study Error
is your frame all beams? i'm pretty sure fatigue doens't support beams
maybe just to get started, i'd suggest trying just a block that is meshed with solids and setup like a cantilever beam.
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Re: Fatigue Study Error
Hey guys,
Sorry I was away for a couple days so Im just looking at your replies now. I believe Jared is right. None of the suggestions got me away from the error, and when I performed a fatigue study on a simple cantilever it worked perfectly. So it appears SolidWorks just cannot handle beams in fatigue analysis? Not really sure why they would be handeled differently from a standard rectangular beam.
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Re: Fatigue Study Error
524049 Enhance solver to allow fatigue calculation based on beam analysis.
currently just a limitation
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