Flexider Deploys fe-safe Software from Safe Technology

By DE Editors

Italy's Flexider Automotive has selected Safe Technology's fe-safe durability analysis software to perform advanced fatigue analysis on automotive components for leading car manufacturers including Audi, Ferrari, Fiat Group, Iveco and Volkswagen.

Flexider Automotive, an IMCI Company, produces metallic decoupling flexible elements for gas exhaust systems for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Flexider automotive engineers will use fe-safe's thermo-mechanical fatigue analysis capabilities to calculate the effects fatigue on flex pipes and decoupling elements.

"These days, simply 'over-designing' a component by adding more material in order to extend fatigue life is not an option. The adoption of fe-safe allows for component designs to be tweaked and optimized at the virtual design stage, thus reducing the costly and time-consuming 'design-test-redesign' cycle", said Giuseppe Ruggiero, Durability Test Engineer, Flexider.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.