StressCheck from ESRD
StressCheck from ESRD
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Hello
Have any one of you any experience or knowledge about this product?
How does it compare to other FEA software like Ansys, NeNastran, designstar.
KnutF
Have any one of you any experience or knowledge about this product?
How does it compare to other FEA software like Ansys, NeNastran, designstar.
KnutF





RE: StressCheck from ESRD
RE: StressCheck from ESRD
Usually, we pull farfield stresses from nastran and input them as loads into a detail stresscheck model to obtain raised stresses for fatigue analysis using unnotched S-N curves. Works pretty well.
Other notes - great tech support(!), and some bugginess with windows NT.
RE: StressCheck from ESRD
The program handles a variety of applications from those mentioned (stress concentrations) to laminates.
Having taken a course in FEA with one of the developers of that program I can state StressCheck was never intended to be the same as NASTRANS or others that build huge models and files. It was intended to be used with good judgement is creating smaller models that take advantage of symmetry and known boundary conditions.
So yes it does handle the smaller problems very well and not so well if you just have to have a billion dof model that panders to the ooh and aahs of the marketing department!
Regards,

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