ProFES
Version 2.0 Capabilities
Import Models:
- ANSYS5.5.4-5.6 database files, archives, and parametric
- NASTRAN bulk data files
- PATRAN session files, including Unigraphics features
Response Statistics:
- Maximum
- Minimum
- Absolute Maximum
- Absolute Minimum
- Average
- Smoothed Maximum
Probabilistic Modeling:
- Output Response Variable
- Random Variable
- External Function
- Limit State Function
- Internal (Parsed) Equation
Random Variable Types:
- Normal
- Log-Normal
- Triangular
- Exponential
- Uniform
- Beta
- Weibull
- Extreme Value Type I Largest
- Uniform Possibility
- Triangular Possibility
- Constant
- All distributions can be truncated
Probabilistic Analysis Method:
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- First Order Reliability Method
- First Order Second Moment Analysis
- Importance Sampling
- Response Surface
- Adaptive Response Surface
- Possibility Analysis
- User-defined Add-on Analysis
External Functions:
- SN Fatigue
- Mean Stress Effects
- Mean Stress Life
- User-defined
- Internal Functions
- Operator +, -, *, /, ^
- Function sin(), cos(), tan(), sqrt(), log(), ln(), exp()
- Conditionals
- Mathematical Constants
Finite Element Translators:
Random Element Properties:
- Depends upon translator
Random Loads:
- Depends upon translator
Random Boundary Conditions:
- Depends upon translators
Random Geometry:
- Depends upon translator
Random Material Properties:
- Depends upon translator
Nodal Responses:
- Depends upon translator
Element Responses:
- Depends upon translator
