Sharda Motor Deploys MSC Fatigue

By DE Editors

Sharda Motor Industries, one of the leading suppliers of exhaust systems to automotive OEMs in India, has incorporated MSC Software's MSC Fatigue into the company's Virtual Product Development process. MSC Fatigue will be used to perform durability analysis to predict the fatigue performance of the exhaust system and to take corrective actions, early in the design stage.

According to the company, the recent feature advances in MSC Fatigue have enabled the R&D team at Sharda Motor Industries to design their exhaust systems against fatigue failures, thereby improving the overall quality of the product. Access to MSC Fatigue helps end users determine optimal design options, which in turn helps save material cost. By working in close collaboration with the testing team to reduce the number of physical prototypes, the R&D Team is able to achieve first-time-right designs.

"After evaluating many CAE technologies, Sharda Motor R&D selected MSC Softwares simulation solutions including MSC Nastran and MSC Fatigue as its main CAE platform," said Dr. Sivanandi Rajadurai, head of R&D at Sharda."By applying MSC's solutions, the company is able to perform exhaust system Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) performance calculations, dynamic analysis and durability analysis in order to validate the system performance under road excitation and engine excitation. With the use of MSC Fatigue, the company is able to predict field failures on exhaust components and develop solutions to minimize failure and the number of physical prototypes."

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