In a vibration fatigue evaluation, the result is a field named interface.
fus. This is the fatigue usage factor, which describes the accumulated relative damage. Values of
fus below
1 indicate that the stress history experienced does not lead to fatigue.
The S-N curve relates the applied stress to the permissible number of cycles to fatigue. For high loads, the stress that corresponds to 0.1 cycles is taken as the highest stress that can be experienced in the material. If the loading results in a stress which exceeds this limiting value, an error message displays stating that static failure is expected and no solution is provided. For low loads the
Cycle cutoff parameter,
Ncut, is used to obtain the lower stress limit, which can be seen as the endurance limit. If stresses are below this value they are considered not to be damaging and they do thus not contribute to
fus.