MTS Fracture Template - Manual (Page 31)

Description Parameter
Specify the cycle intervals written to disk
during the precrack activity. Store Every Nth Precrack
Cycle
Specify the amount of crack length change
that will cause data to be stored to disk. Crack Size Change Store
Typically, operators will not store every cycle,
but will only store data when the crack grows
by a significant amount, such as 0.05 mm.
Specify the lower load limit for linear least
squares fit compliance used to determine FCG Lower Least Squares
Fit Percentage
when to start saving data to disk. This
parameter is not used for FCG DCPD tests.
Specify the upper load limit for linear least
squares fit compliance used to determine FCG Upper Least Squares
Fit Percentage
when to start saving data to disk. This
parameter is not used for FCG DCPD tests.
Specify the cycle intervals written to disk
during the test. Typically, this is more than
10,000. FCG N Cycle Save
Test Termination Parameters
Test Termination Parameters
Description Parameter
Specify the crack size limit that, if exceeded,
ends the test. FCG Final Crack Limit
Specify the crack growth rate limit that, if
exceeded, ends the test. FCG Crack Growth Rate
Limit
Specify the number of times the FCG Crack
Growth Rate Limit can trip before the MPE
application ends the test. Outside Crack Growth
Limits Allowed
Specify the maximum number of cycles to
run before the test ends. This parameter is
not used for FCG DCPD tests. FCG Cycle Limit
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Fatigue Crack Growth (FCG) Template