Re:Test Engineers can help you with Fatigue Testing.

Fatigue is still the greatest contributor to product failure. A clear understanding is essential for product and test development. Tests should always be designed with an eye towards reproducing fatigue, it is usually the failure mechanism we are trying to reproduce.

Designing a fatigue test requires a significant amount of experience, especially if the test article is a component or assembly with complex geometry and multiple axes. Many different parameters are used to distil the operating environment into a lab fatigue test that provides accurate information as inexpensively and as quickly as possible. The process begins with a complete analysis of the environment via Finite Element (FE) models, free-body diagrams or  field data acquisition. The loading is then broken down into an efficient, short history (sinusoids, peak-valley-time, block profiles, real time simulation etc.), and the results are carefully evaluated to relate them to operating life.

Learn how to do it through our on-line training class.

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