HyperLife Overview

A comprehensive fatigue solutions framework.

HyperLife is an easy-to-learn fatigue analysis software developed on a solver-neutral framework. It provides a comprehensive tool set for durability analysis, directly interfacing with all the major finite element analysis (FEA) and multi-body dynamics (MBS) result files. With an embedded material library, HyperLife offers solutions for fatigue life predictions under static and transient loading across a wide range of industrial applications.

Benefits

• Easy to learn and easy to use graphical interface to perform Fatigue Life predictions.
• Solver neutral framework interfacing leading FEA results data.
• Embedded material database.
• Specialty module to perform simultaneous fatigue analysis on base material and welded joints according to numerous design codes and guidelines.*
• Customizable environment to add new or inhouse functionality.*

*Beta version in the 2019 release.

Options

Table 1.

		Stress State	Mean Stress Correction	Plasticity
SN	Uniaxial	Abs Max Principal Max Principal VONMISES Signed von Mises TRESCA Signed TRESCA Signed Max Shear X Normal Y Normal Z Normal X-Y Shear Y-Z Shear Z-X Shear	GOODMAN (Default) GERBER GERBER2 SODERBERG FKM	NA
	Multiaxial	NA (Stress tensors are directly used)	GOODMAN - Tension damage model FKM - Tension damage model FINDLEY - Shear damage model	NA
EN	Uniaxial	Abs Max Principal Max Principal Min Principal VONMISES Signed von Mises TRESCA SGTRESCA Signed Max Shear X Normal Y Normal Z Normal X-Y Shear Y-Z Shear Z-X Shear	Smith-Watson Topper (SWT) MORROW MORROW2	Neuber
	Multiaxial	NA (Stress tensors are directly used)	Smith-Watson Topper (SWT) - Tension damage model Fatemi-Socie Model (FS) - Shear damage madel Brown-Miller Model (BM) - Shear damage model	Jiang's plasticity model - Non-proportional laoding Default, not exposed.

Table 2.

Welds	Method	Mean Stress Correction	Weld Elements	Plasticity
Seam	VOLVO	None (Default) FKM	Shell elements	NA
Spot	RUPP	None (Default) FKM	Cbar Cbeam Cweld Chexa	NA