Pre-Stress File

 

Figure 1  Pre-Stress File in the Fatigue Evaluation dialog

 

If the user wants to take static stress information into account in the fatigue analysis, user have to make RecurDyn nodal static stress file (*.dnsrd) through Pre-Stress function. And then, user have to load this result file when calculating fatigue analysis. if user already have a calculated result file for fatigue analysis (*.dsrd), static stress effect cannot be applied to fatigue analysis.