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Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 8th October 2004:
Mercury Marine, the world's leading manufacturer of marine propulsion systems, has chosen fe-safe™ as its standard fatigue analysis package. Since its founding in 1939, Mercury has consistently emphasized quality, innovation and reliability and Safe Technology is proud to now be a part of Mercury's customer promise.
Michael Mihelich, CAE Manager explained their choice: "In evaluation and in practice, we have found fe-safe™ to be very fast, very solid and very easy to use. We will now be looking to expand our testing facilities to include more strain-life testing and x-ray diffraction equipment to complement fe-safe™'s durability prediction capabilities...fe-safe™ will enable Mercury Marine to remain at the cutting edge of marine engine design."
Other companies to have chosen fe-safe™ this summer include Gunite Corporation, Dresser Rand, Delphi-Packard Electrical Systems and Eaton Automotive. From diesel engines and automotive wheel-end components, through to electronics, energy conversion and medical equipment, fe-safe™ is proving that extending durability is becoming an increasingly integral way of staying ahead of the game.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 8th October 2004:
Safe Technology has released a new version of fe-safe™, the company’s state-of-the-art durability analysis software suite for FE models. More than 100 industrial companies and in excess of 60 research organisations have now chosen fe-safe™ as their standard fatigue analysis tool.
fe-safe™ v5.1-01 has many new capabilities and further increases in speed. fe-safe™ v5.1-01 is easy to use for the non-specialist user with features such as the automatic selection of the appropriate fatigue analysis algorithm for each material in the FEA model.
New Features:
fe-safe™ as a design tool:
With the release of v5.1, new enhancements have increased the usability of fe-safe™ as a design tool as well as a fatigue analysis tool, with new contour plots for design engineers:
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 8th October 2004:
To discuss fe-safe™ and safe4fatigue™ and your durability analysis needs in more detail, please contact Mike Roedersheimer, Safe Technology’s newest recruit.
Mike Roedersheimer, Sales Consultant
Office: 513-598-1520
Cell: 513-379-8783
Email: MikeR@safetechnology.com
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 21st July 2004:
Safe Technology have announced a series of Fatigue and Durability seminars to be held at the Dana Technical Resource Park, Ottawa Lake, Mitchigan on November 8 - 12, 2004, and at the headquarters of Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California on December 6 - 10, 2004.
Courses provide basic and advanced introduction to modern theories of fatigue and their practical application. Attendees will learn about material stress / fatigue, optimizing designs to reduce fatigue, and technologies available to analyze models predicting areas of concern.
John Draper of Safe Technology will present the seminars. John Draper has over 25 years experience in fatigue design and fatigue life assessment in the aerospace and ground-vehicle industries. He is a recognized authority in the industry, and a regular presenter at conferences and seminars worldwide - Including conferences for ABAQUS and ANSYS users around the world, the ASTM Symposium on Residual Stress Effects on Fatigue and Fracture Testing, and more. John Draper is the Chairman of the Engineering Integrity Society in the UK and a member of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers).
For further details see the training page
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 1st June 2004:
fe-safe™ v5.1, the latest version of the state-of-the-art durability analysis software suite for FE models, has now been released. The new release includes a number of enhancements and important new features.
A major new capability in fe-safe™ v5.1 is modal superpositioning, enabling the user to analyse dynamic stresses. This means that fe-safe™, as the leading durability analysis package amongst engine and engine component manufacturers, can now handle vibration fatigue of solid bodies and sheet metal components.
This capability was developed in conjunction with ArvinMeritor Commercial Exhaust Systems in the UK where it is being used successfully for the fatigue analysis of exhaust after-treatment systems, where vibration loads are combined with complex thermal cycles and welded joints.
For increased usability, improvements to the ABAQUS and ANSYS interfaces have ensured further reliability and reduction in analysis times. Also, there is now no limit to the size of FEA files imported into fe-safe™, thereby enabling the analysis of large models. For example, 8 Gbyte FEA results files have been analysed by fe-safe™ in approximately 35 minutes.
fe-safe/Rotate™ analyses components quickly and reliably, by taking advantage of their axial symmetry - wheels, bearings and shafts, for example. Enhancements to this module in fe-safe™ v5.1 allow for an even greater range of use by supporting half models, with either an odd or even number of axisymmetric segments.
Other new features include:
fe-safe™ features:
Feedback from fe-safe™ customers consistently confirms that fe-safe™ is fast, accurate and easy-to-use.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 1st June 2004:
Dresser Rand (Turbo Products Division), Eaton Corp. (Automotive Torque Control Products Division and Air Systems Division), and The South West Research Institute are the latest companies to choose fe-safe™, the state-of-the-art durability analysis software suite for FE models from Safe Technology
Other fe-safe™ customers include: Caterpillar Inc., Cummins Inc., International Truck & Engine Corp., Detroit Diesel, Rolls Royce Combustion Systems, Land Rover, MAN B&W, Mercury Marine, and Dana Corp.
Press Release, Des Plaines, IL, USA, 1st April 2004:
Des Plaines, IL - Safe Technology Ltd has been granted a license to use the AFS cast iron database from the research report "Strain-Life Fatigue Properties Database for Cast Iron" in its state-of-the-art durability analysis software suite for Finite Element models, . Safe Technology Ltd is a technical leader in the design and development of durability analysis software that pushes the boundaries of fatigue analysis software to ensure greater accuracy and confidence in modern fatigue analysis methods for industrial applications. The availability of the AFS database within fe-safe™ ensures that users will have access to the most up-to-date and accurate cast-iron materials data for their durability analyses.
The AFS Ductile Iron and the Gray Iron Research Committees have developed a Strain-Life Fatigue Properties Database for Cast Iron. This database represents the capability of the domestic casting industry and is available as a special AFS publication. It is the culmination of a five-year effort in partnership with the DOE Industrial Technology Program. The scope of this information includes twenty-two carefully specified and produced castings from ASTM/SAE standard grades of irons, including Austempered Gray Iron (AGI) (specification is under development). Each grade is comprehensively characterized from an authoritative source with chemical analysis, microstructure analysis, hardness tests, monotonic tension tests, and compression tests. This information is contained in user friendly digital files on two CD-ROMs for importing into computer aided design software. AFS Publications are described on-line at www.afsinc.org. The upcoming AFS Casting Congress (June 12-15, 2004 in Rosemont IL) Panel 04-142, Fatigue Properties of Cast Irons, will discuss how this never before available information is used for preliminary computer aided design.
The fe-safe™ durability analysis software suite for finite element modelling combines component loading, FEA stresses and materials data, and performs advanced multi-axial fatigue analysis. Fatigue hot-spots are automatically identified. 3D contour plots can be displayed for fatigue life, and for allowable stress factors for a specified design life. Over 140 companies, including OEMs and Tier 1 Suppliers worldwide use fe-safe™, including Caterpillar, Cummins, International Truck & Engine, Mercury Marine, Dana, Federal Mogul, Eaton and Rolls Royce.
For more information on the project background contact Joe Santner, Director of Research, American Foundry Society, 505 State St, Des Plaines, IL 60016-8399, Voice: (800) 537-4237 x264, Fax: (847) 824-7848, E-mail: jss@afsinc.org. For information on AFS Publications contact Laura Moreno, Director of Publications, American Foundry Society, 505 State St, Des Plaines, IL 60016-8399, Voice: (800) 537-4237 x241, Fax: (847) 824-7848, E-mail: lmoreno@afsinc.org.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 5th February 2004:
Mercury Marine, manufacturer of the world's most advanced marine propulsion systems worldwide, has adopted fe-safe™ as its standard durability analysis software package.
Mercury selected fe-safe™ after an extensive evaluation process and have incorporated the software into their design process for a range of products and components, enabling the company to remain at the cutting edge of marine engine design.
Website: www.mercurymarine.com
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 22nd January 2004:
Cosworth Racing is and always has been a recognised centre of excellence for automotive engineering in the UK. In keeping with this, Cosworth Racing has chosen fe-safe™, the most technically advanced durability analysis software suite for FE models as its standard durability analysis software suite. The software will be used by Cosworth Racing in the design and analysis of major castings, such as cylinder heads and crankcases, as well as pistons, crankshafts and connecting rods, for their world class engines.
Hywel Thomas, Senior Engineer, F1 Design and Development, explained that "fe-safe™ has a number of unique capabilities which are important to us, in particular the advanced high temperature fatigue capability. The speed of analysis and ease of use were also very important issues which fe-safe™ scored highly on as well as being very compatible with our current design and analysis processes".
Cosworth aims to use fe-safe™ not just to increase the reliability of its engine components but also to reduce development times and costs in the design process. fe-safe™ will be used to optimise existing components and develop new ones.
About Cosworth Racing
With experience spanning more than four decades, Cosworth Racing is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of ultra-high performance engines for racing, rally and road car applications. Cosworth Racing provides powerplant technology and design solutions for premier teams in Formula One, the World Rally Championship, CART (USA), GP motorbike racing and Sportscars, as well as racing engine technology transfer to the Premier Automotive Group of Ford Motor Company.
Website: www.cosworth.com