A critical factor in successful durability engineering is gaining a precise understanding of the loads that your product will undergo during its lifetime. The use of unreliable load scenarios for Test or CAE based durability engineering inherently implies invalid fatigue performance prediction.
LMS TecWare Load Data Processing has all the standards, hooks and connections to import data from any source: vast amounts of field load data collected after a day out on the proving ground; or predicted load data synthesized using multi-body simulations. If you are processing field load data, it is more than likely that your data will need to be cleaned and validated. LMS TecWare contains a set of tools which help you edit, manipulate and validate your data in every way.
Besides effective load data cleaning and validation, LMS TecWare Load Data Processing focuses on monitoring and comparison of essential loading portions from a durability perspective. With the built-in reduction methods (rainflow counting, range pair, time-at-level, spectral analysis, statistical methods….) and dedicated visualization tools, users can quickly overlay and correlate the durability impact of different road surfaces or different design variants. This helps users in selecting representative loading scenarios for further Test or CAE based Durability engineering.
The streamlined process allows users to choose between interactive and automatic operation modes and to automatically distribute reports that consist of a customizable mix of time histories, rainflow matrices, frequency information and statistical results.
