Validating fasteners is critical for ensuring the structural integrity and performance of products across various industries. This process can be laborious, especially with larger and more complex products.
Elevate your fastener validation process with InDepth FastenerPro, an advanced, versatile and intuitive software for evaluating and optimizing the Factor of Safety for a wide range of fasteners – such as bolts, rivets, pins, and spot welds – based on output from Finite Element Analysis of complex structures with multiple load cases.
WHY INDEPTH FASTENERPRO?
efficient product development
FastenerPro’s automation and scalability enhance productivity, efficiency, and accuracy, accelerating design iterations and reducing product development costs.
comprehensive analysis
FastenerPro eliminates the constraints of manual calculation and basic calculators, enabling a complete assessment of every fastener in a system.
Achieve optimal design
FastenerPro facilitates the optimization of fastener size, grade, and quantity, reducing the mass providing cost benefits, even in the most complex systems.
key features
Versatile Software
Evaluate and optimize the Factor of Safety (FoS) for a wide range of fasteners – such as bolts, rivets, pins, spot welds, and more.
Blazing Fast
Intelligently reads FEA solver output files with data for thousands of fasteners from numerous load cases, and calculates FoS in seconds.
Multiple Evaluation Standards
Shigley Method, AISC/RCSC and GB-50017 in the current release. VDI-2230, Eurocode-3 and EN-13814 in future releases.
Built-In Fastener Database
Contains typical SAE, ASTM, ISO, HUCK bolts and blind rivet data (size, preload - if applicable, strength etc.) with an option to import custom data as needed
FEA Solver Neutral
Supports output from popular FEA solvers such as Nastran, Altair® OptiStruct®, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, SolidWorks, and more - using a solver-neutral file format.
FOS Visualization
Export HWASCII file from excel to visualize the FoS in Altair HyperView.
Calculated Data & Excel Integration
Provides FoS in tension, shear, slip, combined tension/slip and combined tension/shear. And, for both static and dynamic loading scenarios. All the raw and calculated data can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet for custom post-processing (screening, iterations, reporting etc.)