What's New

• Utilization output for stress life workflow.
• Evaluation distance to not depend on screening of welds via Inspect.
• Batch evaluation of only selected welds from a model.

Utilization with Stress Life Workflow

Stress Life evaluation is extended to evaluate utilization for both welded and base metal evaluation. In weld evaluation, utilization is evaluated for all stress components (transverse, longitudinal and shear) of the weld. The endurance limit flag is to be activated in evaluate dialog to enable the utilization output.

Inclusion for Scale Factor f_v in DVS 1608 for the total utilization formulae

Licensing

The HyperLife Solver license feature is required for all evaluations in HyperLife Weld Certification. V2024 required the HyperLife Solver license feature only for Stress Life, ERRI and IEC.

Enhancement to Evaluation distance

The evaluation distance calculation is no longer dependent on Inspect/Screening of weld lines. The maximum evaluation distance assigned in Points context is controlled by the threshold distance (search distance) assigned in Preferences. > Preferences.

Weld evaluation in Batch mode allows evaluating only the weldlines listed in the Weld Property File.

Batch mode evaluation supports evaluation of only selected weldlines. The weld property file (WPF) assigned in the Master Run setup XML file is to be updated to list the weldlines of interest for evaluation.

• The issue concerning derived loadcase (by superposition and envelope) not listing in Inspect and LoadMap contexts is resolved.
• The points context for Stress Life/ERRI evaluation is updated to not list materials from VOLVO and RUPP approaches.

• Updates to HyperLife licensing and installation for fatigue evaluation using Stress Life or regulations ERRI and IEC.
• Batch evaluation support for weld and base metal fatigue evaluation following regulations DVS1608, DVS1612, EuroCode3 and FKM.

Licensing and installation

HyperLife 2024 will require installation of both HyperWorks Desktop and Solver packages. Installation of HyperLife via Solvers is a prerequisite for Stress Life, ERRI and IEC fatigue evaluation using HyperLife Weld Certification.

HyperLife 2024 also introduces the license feature HyperLifeSolver following solver licensing scheme for InApp and HPC based evaluation. The Altair unit draw will depend on the number of CPU cores assigned for the HyperLife job. The HyperLife Solver license feature is required for Stress Life, ERRI and IEC evaluation in HyperLife Weld Certification. HyperLife session for setting up workflows will continue to use license feature - HyperLife.

Batch Run submission

Fatigue evaluation without launching the HyperLife Weld certification session for regulations DVS1608, DVS1612, EuroCode3 and FKM is supported via Run Setup XML file. The batch run is supported for both welded and base metal evaluation following EuroCode3 and FKM regulation.

Export Run setup file

The run setup for regulations DVS1608, DVS1612, EuroCode3 and FKM can be exported as .xml file, which can be used for a batch run submission. The .xml file contains settings pertaining to weld detection, selected regulation, weld properties and fatigue events to execute a fatigue run in HyperLife Weld Certification. The .xml file is written to the working directory along with weld session file on click of Export from Evaluate dialog. The .xml file can be text edited for updates to the exported setup.

Support for element sets for base metal evaluation

Stress Life and Regulations EuroCode3, FKM and ERRI supports base metal fatigue evaluation at selected element groups defined via element sets.

• FKM Static assessment reporting incorrect min and max stress for base metal evaluation was resolved.

The following known issues will be addressed in a future release as we continuously improve performance of the software:

• Issue in writing the model file containing information of 1D weldlines File > Preferences > General > Save model file; the issue is specific to weld certification workflow using Ansys result files.
• Issue in screening weldlines (Quick Inspect) using derived envelope loadcases. This will be fixed in the upcoming release.