ASME Local Failure V201.4

Introduction

Background:

• Local failure is a term used in ASME 2013 Sec. VIII Div.2 Part 5. as a means to compare the magnitude of plastic strain values against limits set out by the code.
• Handling these stress and strain results, together with the material class dependent constants can be a tedious task, and easily prone to human error.

Solution:

• The Local Failure app can be used as an efficient post-processing tool to plot the local failure utilization ratio according to ASME.
• The material properties are found for the specified material class according to ASME.
• Furthermore, the ASME Local Failure app offers the possibility to specify forming strain.

The ASME Local Failure documentation can be downloaded from this link:

ASME Local Failure Documentation V201.4.pdf

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