• Welcome to Adams Durability
  • Introduction to Adams Durability
    • How You Benefit from Using Adams Durability
    • Using Adams Durability On Demand
    • Loading the Adams Durability Plugin
• Performing Stress Recovery
  • Stress Recovery in Adams Durability
  • Modal Stress Recovery
    • Restarting NASTRAN
    • Reading Modal Deformations File (MDF)
    • Results Postprocessing
    • Example of Input File
  • Stress on Flexible Bodies
    • Recovering Stresses on Flexible Bodies
    • Computing Stresses or Strains
    • Displaying Stress or Strain Contours
    • Plotting Stresses or Strains
    • Visualizing Hot Spots
• Stress Recovery Theory
  • Coordinate Reference Transformation
  • Stress Recovery Analysis
  • Modal Stress Recovery
  • Recovering Stress on Preloaded Flexible Bodies
  • Mesh Refinement for Stress Recovery
  • Component Mode Synthesis
    • Background
    • Stress Concentration Evaluation
    • Example: Rectangular Filleted Bar in Bending
• Fluid-Structure Interaction Recovery
  • Fluid-Structure Interaction Recovery in Adams Durability
  • Building MNF for Fluid-Structure Interaction Recovery
    • MSC Nastran Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • Recovering FSI on Flexible Bodies
  • Computing Acoustic Pressures
  • Plotting Acoustic Pressures
• Exporting Data
  • Exporting Data Using Adams Durability
  • Exporting Data for ANSYS
  • Exporting Data for MSC.Fatigue
  • Exporting Data for NASTRAN
  • Exporting for nCode
  • Exporting to RPC III or DAC
  • Setting Up Requests
  • Simulating the Model
• Using Adams Durability with Adams Solver
  • Using Adams Durability with Adams Solver
    • Setting Up a Motion or Force
    • Setting Up a Spline
    • Setting Up and Outputting FEM Data
    • Setting Up and Outputting Requests
    • Specifying the Order and Subset of Requests to Output with Arrays
• About User Functions
  • User Functions
  • HOT_SPOTS
  • LIFE
  • MAX_STRESS
  • TOP_SPOTS
• About Test Data
  • Plotting Test Data
    • Plotting Data
    • Comparing Data
    • Importing Test Data
  • Using Test Data
    • Applying Test Data
    • Browsing RPC III or DAC Data
    • Creating a Spline
    • Filtering Test Data
    • Referencing Test Data
• Fatigue Calculation using Rainflow Count
  • Introduction
  • Accessing Rainflow Plots
    • Basic Rainflow plots
    • Range Pair Plots
    • Level Crossing Plot
    • Equivalent Load & Damage
  • Adams View Command Language
  • Adams Python Scripting Language
• Using the Adams Durability Toolkit
  • Adams Durability Toolkit
  • Filtering Test Data
    • Arguments
    • Channel Selection
    • Data Decimation
    • Data Filtering
    • Default Naming Convention of Filtered Files
    • Examples
    • Filtering Test Data (Durfilter)
    • Format
  • Processing Results File for Durability
• Examples
  • Tutorials and Examples
• Dialog Box - F1 Help
  • ANSYS Modal Export Dialog Box
  • Compute Acoustic Pressure Plot
  • Compute FE Part Stress and Strain
  • Compute Nodal Plot
  • CAEfatigue Export Dialog Box
  • CAEfatigue Import CSV Results File Dialog Box
  • Hot Spots Information Dialog Box
  • INTERP
  • MSC.Fatigue Export Dialog Box
  • MSC.Fatigue Import Results File Dialog Box
  • Nastran Modal Export Dialog Box
• Appendix
  • Entering File Names in Text Boxes
  • Entering Object Names in Text Boxes
  • MSC Nastran Input Deck
  • MSC Nastran Input Deck Example
  • Which Basis Option Should I Use?

Welcome to Adams Durability

Which Basis Option Should I Use?