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20 July 2004

Product News

Safe Technology Launches fe-safe/TURBOlife for Creep Fatigue

Safe Technology announced fe-safe/TURBOlife, a new product resulting from the incorporation of Serco Assurance's TURBOlife creep fatigue damage software into fe-safe, Safe Technology's durability analysis software for FE models.

fe-safe/TURBOlife can be used for new design or life extension analyses. Residual life analyses play an essential part in the maintenance and development of components in a number of industries. Recent changes in the operating rationale of power stations from base load to demand following means that gas turbines and boilers are now operating beyond their design basis. Increasingly demanding emission legislation in the automotive industry means that engine components are operating hotter. fe-safe/TURBOlife provides a unique and validated tool to meet these technical challenges.

TURBOlife assesses creep and fatigue damage individually and the known effects of their interaction on component durability.

fe-safe/TURBOlife is able to differentiate between crack initiation hot-spots by the mechanisms of creep, fatigue, or creep fatigue interaction and produce creep-fatigue contour maps for component design and failure analysis.

TURBOlife has already been used in the power generation, gas turbine and automotive industries. fe-safe/TURBOlife will be aimed primarily at these industries although any industry where components operate hot and cyclically with variable amplitudes of mechanical stress and thermal stress will benefit from this technology (e.g. IC engines, gas turbines, turbochargers, power stations both nuclear and fossil).

More information is available at http://www.safetechnology.com

 

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