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Correlation study of a commercial truck biaxial test
At the 2018 nCode User Group Meeting, Accuride presented an introduction of fatigue analysis in the commercial truck wheel industry followed by an implementation of nCode DesignLife used for calculation of Required Fatigue Strength (RFS). Predicting fatigue damage and RFS are two methods for evaluating biaxial load testing of wheel subject to prescribed loading profiles. One of the next steps identified in the presentation was the need for follow up correlation work.
Correlation study of a commercial truck biaxial test
At the 2018 nCode User Group Meeting, Accuride presented an introduction of fatigue analysis in the commercial truck wheel industry followed by an implementation of nCode DesignLife used for calculation of Required Fatigue Strength (RFS). Predicting fatigue damage and RFS are two methods for evaluating biaxial load testing of wheel subject to prescribed loading profiles. One of the next steps identified in the presentation was the need for follow up correlation work.
This correlation project identified area for improvement in our testing and data analysis processes. Improvements opportunities in FEA loading are also pointed out. Next steps will be to update our correlation process followed by repeated testing and failure mode correlation.
As Accuride becomes a global player in the commercial wheel market, we are not only learning to do biaxial testing, but also to predict fatigue performance prior to testing on this more complex test. nCode has played an important role helping to develop and implement enhanced performance predictive methods, saving Accuride countless hours of product development time.
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