Safety Factors
By adding a Safety subnode under Fasteners, you can evaluate the degree of utilization for each fastener.
The damage criterion used is
Here Fn,max and Fs,max, are the critical forces in tension and shear, respectively. The exponents αn and αs are often chosen as 2 for rivets, while other choices are common for bolts.
For computing a safety factor, s, the following nonlinear equation is solved: