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Does it matter too much whether to use the centroidal results in FEM model in fatigue analysis?
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Is it solid or engineering element (beam/plate/shell), and element order?
If your fatigue analysis algorithm is based on the stress/strain values, which is originally calculated on the Gauss points in conventional FEM. Centroidal/nodal results are essentially interpolated from Gauss point solutions. Thus, in my opinion, the Gauss point stress/strain can give you the most accurate fatigue results. For your case, if the node-based fatigue algorithm is supported for your element type, use the nodal results.
If your fatigue analysis algorithm is based on the stress/strain values, which is originally calculated on the Gauss points in conventional FEM. Centroidal/nodal results are essentially interpolated from Gauss point solutions. Thus, in my opinion, the Gauss point stress/strain can give you the most accurate fatigue results. For your case, if the node-based fatigue algorithm is supported for your element type, use the nodal results.
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> Thus, in my opinion, the Gauss point stress/strain can give you the most accurate fatigue results.
Not necessarily. Suppose one is doing a fatigue analysis for a cut-out corner, you cannot use gauss point results as they would not be at the edge of the cut-out. You'll have to use extrapolated nodal stresses at the edge of the cut-out to obtain the "correct" Kt stresses for a fatigue evaluation.
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it depends. If you're dealing with large scale structures, without discontinuities, you can use centroidal stress to characterise the stress of a large structure.
but if you're analyzing a detail, you probably need nodal stresses ...
unless your fatigue algorithm uses centroidal stress.
clear as mud, eh?
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but if you're analyzing a detail, you probably need nodal stresses ...
unless your fatigue algorithm uses centroidal stress.
clear as mud, eh?
another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?
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