Altair HyperLife 2025 Release Notes

Highlights

  • Improvement to Stress Life evaluation to support scale factor output to achieve the required life for the given stress history.
  • Improvement to Strain Life evaluation to support Standard Error of Cyclic Stress-Strain (SEc).

New Features

Stress Life (SN) evaluation to Safety Factor = Scale
In addition to the damage calculation, HyperLife evaluates the scale required to obtain a target damage or life, when safety factor is requested with option Scale.
Strain Life (eN) evaluation supports Standard Error of Cyclic Stress-Strain
The Standard Error of Cyclic Stress-Strain (SEc) is defined via the Strain Life material properties. The SEc value is calculated by modifying the cyclic strength coefficient.

Enhancements

Launch Log file from Run Status
HyperLife Run summary post evaluation can be directly launched from the Run Status dialog, by clicking the run name.

Resolved Issues

  • Run name is now retained on reopening the Evaluate context and on reloading the session file.
  • HyperLife preferences now reverts to default for number of processes.
  • Empty H5 file written no longer when no rainflow output is requested.
  • Assigning material to entity sets no longer shows application error.
  • The number of processors from File > Preferences is now reflected in the Evaluate > No of processors.

Known Issues

  • Material selection is not retained for the spot weld after weld fatigue analysis. The issue is inconsistent and will be fixed in the upcoming release.
  • Layer should be manually selected for PERMAS H3D result file format for fatigue evaluation.