Reliability Module
If ordered with FPM-C, includes analysis of strain life curve dependence on probability of occurrence.
The Reliability Module characterizes the rate of occurrence of crack precursors of a given size. This information is useful for estimating likely strength or fatigue failure rates for quality/warranty applications.
Recommended when probability of failure needs to be estimated.
Experiment Overview:
- 50 simple tension pull-to-failure experiments
- static tearing, 3 replicates
- number of slabs needed for test: 10
Tear & Fatigue Analyser
- Measures crack growth under dynamic loading cycles
- Produces the crack growth rate curve as a function of applied tearing energy
- Produces parameters for describing effects of strain-crystallization on crack growth
- Includes protocols for both fully relaxing (R=0) and nonrelaxing (R>0) conditions
Thermal Effects Module – Advanced
The advanced thermal module is an add-on to the basic module. It enables greater accuracy and completeness in the representation of temperature and frequency effects in structural and thermal models.
For improved accuracy in structural and heat transfer analyses of selfheating and thermal gradient effects.
Note: FPM-TB is required as a prerequisite
Experiment Overview:
- static tearing raw data at 2 more temperatures (in addition to the 3 temperatures already collected in FPM-C and FPM-TB)
- cyclic stress strain raw data at 3 temperatures and 3 frequencies
- thermal conductivity, specific heat & density measurements
- thermal expansion measurement • number of slabs needed for test: 3
Thermal Effects Module – Basic
The basic thermal module produces information useful for computing heat generation rate and crack growth rate law sensitivity to temperature. Use for cases involving significant self-heating and/or thermal gradients (ie Δθ > 25°C).
Recommended for cases with self-heating or thermal gradients.
User gives 2 (additional to FPM-C) temperatures between -40°C & 150°C.
It is required to run FPM-C in order to run this Module.
Experiment Overview:
- static tearing raw data at 2 temperatures (in addition to the temperature run in FPM-C)
- cyclic stress strain raw data at 1 temp., 1 frequency, 5 strain levels
- number of slabs needed for test: 3
Thermal Effects Module -K/WLF
This module is used to determine the strain, temperature and frequency dependence of the viscoelastic storage and loss modulus for use in thermal-mechanical analysis with temperature effects and energy dissipation, or self-heating considerations. The K/WLF module is named for Kraus and for Williams-Landel-and-Ferry, two representations used to describe viscoelastic DMA (Dynamic Mechanical Analysis) measurements. Supports thermal-mechanical workflows for product temperature and energy dissipation analysis.
Experiment Overview:
- low Strain Frequency Sweeps at 3 temperatures
- low Strain Temperature Sweep
- strain Sweep – initial and repeat – at specified temperature and frequency
- optional thermal conductivity, specific heat and density
- three replicates of each test
- number of slabs needed for test: 4