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dhengr, my question is the "relationship between fatigue and fracture", not the definition of them from a text book. I do not expect anybody to spoon feed me anything. I hope someone can find something useful from your post? rb1957, thanks you much for your response. Its much appreciated.

Does anyone have any good references for the discussion between the relationships between fatigue and fracture components? Thanks.

Thanks for your reponse rollupswx, I am refering to both the part and assembly enviroment. The only way I have been able to achieve this so far is to hover my mouse over the area of interest and then a drop down menu appears with the options, however, it is still difficult to distingish between...

Any advice anyone, thanks.

Hello all I am new to Autodesk inventor 12 This is a very simple question, but would be useful to know how to select hidden surfaces which are covered by other surfaces. It's easy when you now how :-) thanks.

Hello all, After conducting lots of Abaqus Standard/static analysis. I am now looking at using Abaqus Explcit to model impact. I am starting off with a simple impact analysis, however I am finding i difficult to reach a solution. What should I be looking for as an indicator to during the...

Thanks, are there any 3D options out there?

Does anyone know of any good software to model kinematics (other than MSC Adams). I am interesting in modelling a motion problem and then extracting the position data during the movement. Thanks I look forward to hearing from you all.

Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks.

Any ideas anyone? Thanks

My particular problem involves contacts and I have decided to conduct a dynamic implicit analysis (i.e. considering the density of the material) and standard static analysis. Am I correct to assume that if, the stress results are the same for both analysis then I can ignore the dynamic/intertial...

Hello all, Is there anyway I can model two components in Solidworks, position them and determine the contact area between them? I that the contact area will depend on the load between the components, just wondered if anyone had any thoughts/experience with this? Thanks.

My particular problem involves contacts and I have decided to conduct a dynamic implicit analysis (i.e. considering the density of the material) and standard static analysis. Am I correct to assume that if, the stress results are the same for both analysis then I can ignore the dynamic/intertial...

That really helps, thanks everyone

Thanks mechfeeney, so just to clarify, Do you mean installing and running the Abaqus software from my PC internal harddrive (C:/) and having my analysis runs directed to my external HD. Or are you suggesting that when the analysis run completes on my internal HD then transfer all the analysis...