ENLife is a state-of-the-art structural mechanics postprocessing software tailored for engineers and designers involved in the evaluation of welded structures for the Railway and heavy equipment industry under static and fatigue conditions. This tool is designed to automate complex evaluation processes and ensure compliance with international standards, including AWS, European norms such as EN17149, EN1993 and EN1999 and DVS guidelines.
In partnership with EC Engineering, a consolidated company in the development and execution of rolling stock and railway projects we constantly improve and push the capabilities of this software to the limit. We expand out processes and automation through the input of our customers and users, while keeping a strong link to the industry requirements.
Key Features:
– Advanced Evaluation Methods: It allows users to assess welds considering different stress directions and failure modes, providing both conservative and detailed evaluations as needed by suppling enough automation to define and control the desired assessment detail.
– Comprehensive Normative Support: ENLife supports static and fatigue evaluation based on EN17149-2/3, Eurocode 3/9, and DVS 1612/1608, ensuring reliable and standard-compliant results.
– Customizable Material and Weld Handling : Users can define and modify material and weld properties, incorporating custom test data to meet specific project requirements. Templates can be fully customized and standardized to align with your company’s industrial processes, ensuring the appropriate assessment type is applied.
– Full control of your assessment stresses: Evaluation can be performed with complete user control over the stress data used for assessment. Independent of mesh size or modeling technique, ENLife enables fully automated evaluations using the most appropriate and reliable stress results.
– Altair ® HyperMesh ® : Seamlessly integrated with Hypermesh ® , offering user-friendly tool panels for weld creation, material handling, and immediate result visualization.
– Compatible with most FE Solvers: Apply ENLife regardless of the FE solver you are working with: Nastran (MSC/NX), Altair Optistruct, ANSYS or ABAQUS.
Accurate weld assessment requires reliable stress extraction that is independent of mesh size and numerical connection effects. ENLife introduces the possibility to evaluate either using centroid-based or nodal-based weld stress evaluation depending on your needs.
Each method offers a distinct trade-off between simplicity, numerical robustness, and accuracy, enabling selection of an evaluation strategy that meets assessment requirements while balancing numerical precision, computational effort, and analysis time.
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