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Stress Analysis

Stress Analysis

The stress analysis functionality in Inventor helps users understand how parts perform under load, so they know their designs have sufficient strength to perform without failure. The stress analysis tools are fully integrated with the dynamic simulation tools, allowing users to perform stress analysis with accurate load conditions that are calculated directly from the dynamic behaviour of the design.

Evaluate Part Function

Save time by removing the guesswork from part design. Examine how parts perform in the real world by visualising how they will deform and how much they will deflect.

Analyse Material Selection

Save money by choosing the best possible material type for the task at hand. Using less material results in a lower cost per part and saves money downstream on shipping, material handling and warehousing fees.

Safety Factor

Make design decisions based on analysis rather than intuition. Let the simulation assist in building the optimal part. Visually identify trouble spots that fall below safety factor requirements and develop alternative solutions for these areas.

ENHANCED Stress Analysis

Execute Stress and Strain Analysis directly in Inventor, with technology powered by ANSYS® DesignSpace. Embedded analysis types are displacement, safety factor, and stress, including maximum and minimum principal stresses.

ENHANCED Integrated with Dynamic Simulation

Analyse the stress in a moving part at different points in the mechanism's operating cycle. Import loads from multiple steps in a dynamic simulation, then calculate and view the resulting stresses in a single analysis run.

NEW Model Simplification

Reduce the time required to generate results from stress analysis by simplifying part geometry to suppress features during FEA analysis.

NEW Thin Element Solver

Identify areas of high stress in thin metal parts, including those made of sheet metal, to help ensure that they can support the operating loads.

Frictionless Constraints

Frictionless constraints make it possible to analyse a broader range of parts. The pin constraint allows rotation about the ref a hole. The frictionless face constraint allows movement along a face.

ENHANCED Embedded Results Viewing

Speed modification and re-simulation until desired results are achieved. Results are superimposed on the Inventor model so the user can make changes to the model and quickly rerun the analysis.

Export Analysis Data to ANSYS

Use the analysis from Inventor directly in other ANSYS products, offering a foundation for engineering review and advanced studies. This functionality accurately communicates load data to those performing more advanced simulations.

Deflection Animation

Gain and communicate a deeper understanding of how a part reacts under stress by animating results of a deflection study and saving as an animation (AVI) file.

Share Validation Results

Quickly and easily add analysis results to reports by exporting to an AVI or graphics file.

Easy-to-Use, Integrated Analysis

Check part designs and explore the impact of design changes without interrupting the design process by leaving the Inventor environment. The tight integration requires no CAD model translation, so this analysis functionality is easier to use than stand-alone solutions. Gain access to functionality typically reserved for analysts, minimising the need for specialised expertise.

In-Context Part Analysis

Analyse a part in the context of an assembly, without having to open the part directly. View a part in context to gain a better understanding of how it functions in its operating environment.