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Discover HyperLife Crack Growth functionality with interactive tutorials.
HL-T: 3000 The Basics of HyperLife Crack Growth
This tutorial guides you through a step-by-step process that covers all the major functionalities ofHyperLife Crack Growth. By working through the tutorial, you can quickly learn the tool and start using HyperLife Crack Growth to evaluate the Crack Growth problem.

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Discover HyperLife Crack Growth functionality with interactive tutorials.
- Access the Model Files
  Learn how to access and download required model files.
- HL-T: 3000 The Basics of HyperLife Crack Growth
  This tutorial guides you through a step-by-step process that covers all the major functionalities ofHyperLife Crack Growth. By working through the tutorial, you can quickly learn the tool and start using HyperLife Crack Growth to evaluate the Crack Growth problem.
  - Import the Model and Results File
  - Assign Materials
    Create Material with Strain Life and Crack Growth – Total Life properties.
  - Assign Load Histories
    Create required event combine load history channel and FE subcases.
  - Define a Hotspot
    Defining a Hotspot to which Crack Properties are assigned.
  - Evaluate and View Results
Setup Analysis
Set up your model for analysis.
Evaluate
Run the model and view results.
HyperLife Crack Growth Overview
The crack growth solver in HyperLife is based on a method developed by Dr. Glinka.topics/fatigue/cg_references_r.html#cg_references_r__growing_crack_load_shedding_r_fn_jrg_2m5_5bc topics/fatigue/cg_references_r.html#cg_references_r__growing_crack_load_shedding_r_fn_vpk_2m5_5bc
Manage Files and Data
Create, open, import, and save models.
Working with Entities
Learn how to manipulate entities.

HL-T: 3000 The Basics of HyperLife Crack Growth

This tutorial guides you through a step-by-step process that covers all the major functionalities ofHyperLife Crack Growth. By working through the tutorial, you can quickly learn the tool and start using HyperLife Crack Growth to evaluate the Crack Growth problem.

Before you begin, copy the file(s) used in this tutorial to your working directory.