DesignLife



From safety factor analyis to advanced durability modeling, it’s your corporate process from end-to-end – just easier, faster, and open to everyone!

Need to minimize the risk of product failure – and get better, lighter, products to market faster than now?

Imagine...
That you could rapidly predict fatigue hotspots and the lifetime of your product:
...using your existing CAE environment – but with much faster analysis, more realistic loadings, accounting for materials properties and manufacturing effects
...moving durability optimization to an upfront development process – minimizing uncertainties and getting results back in time to influence design decisions
...decreasing the dependence on physical prototyping to detect design flaws, and eliminating at least one expensive Test-Analyze-Fix cycle
...reducing warranty costs from unexpected failures in the field, protecting your brand reputation, and exposure to product recall
...getting lighter products to market that still meet durability targets – saving on production costs and helping to meet environment-aware goals
...speeding up mass production by intelligently reducing the number of spot welds
...enabling more engineers to run routine, company standardized analyses – freeing up your fatigue specialists for more ‘added-value’work

DesignLife: The fatigue tool you need to make upfront design decisions

DesignLife is the next generation CAE fatigue analysis tool from nCode – it incorporates over 20 years experience and feedback from leading users and our partners in the industry.

Uniquely, DesignLife is based on an architecture that integrates advanced test and CAE analysis tools within a simple-to-use graphical workflow environment. It’s powerful, it’s quick, and it produces all the information you need to make upfront design decisions!

Fatigue specialists will like the sophisticated analysis features – such as the ability to intelligently reduce complex areas of the design for more detailed analysis, performing multiple analyses in a single run, or linking into external programs for custom analyses, such as design optimization. General users will like the way that the analysis is built up graphically and that they can use pre-defined processes established by others. Managers will like the process repeatability, enhanced reporting, shortening the time to get to a decision, and the way that the Test and CAE environments are integrated and streamlined for better group efficiency.

A graphical workflow

With DesignLife, you can run a standard workflow or interactively build one. Building one starts by connecting the varous input, processing and reporting ‘glyphs’ into a sequence that can be as simple or as complex as you need. Even newcomers can develop processes in minutes that would have taken hours, if not days, to build before.

Ready to run? Just select the loads and models you want to process from the tree on the left, drop them onto the start of the process, click on ‘run’ and watch as the data automatically flow through each stage of the analysis. Status indicators and timing information show what is happening at any time. And intermediate results can be seen at each stage – for example, showing local strain behavior for comparison with measured results. It’s that simple and it’s very, very effective!

Powerful fatigue analysis technology

Reporting Studio

With DesignLife, reporting isn’t something that happens ‘offline’ at the end of the process – it’s totally integrated into it! The reporting glyph combines high levels of functionality and ease of use for multi-window, multi-page report generation using your preferred report style. At the top left side of the reporting glyph, multiple input pads control dataflows to a specific area of the report. It is as flexible as you would wish, and setup is a matter of a couple of minutes even for something as complex as shown here.

Fatigue result sets can include discrete conditions such as “static failure” or “beyond cutoff” where no numeric value is appropriate – they are also best shown using a log color map which few display tools can handle.

Process encapsulation

Some corporate processes can involve many complex steps. The ‘Super Glyph’option allows the most complex workflow to be condensed into one simple sub-process which can be saved for later re-use or for others to just pickup and use as part of a standardized process. For example, a 100 stage process could be reduced to an input, the reporting output, and the ‘black box’ glyph itself.

Managers can password-protect the process to enforce company procedures, then select whether the user can change (or even see) some operational parameters. Nothing could be simpler!

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