Event Specific Safety Factor

Event Specific Safety Factors realize the setup of different optimisation targets for each Event (load case). The following Safety Factor settings are possible:

• An overall Safety Factor can be set for the optimisation,

• or for every Event a Specific Safety Factor needs to be set.

This way different prioritizations of Events can be realized e.g. to integrate overload Events which should not be taken into considerations such as the normal loads.

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The left image shows the starting point of this example. The part is loaded with two Events that have the same Safety Factor and the same forces. In the second image, the Safety Factor of one Event is halved and the forces are doubled. Because of this change one half of the structure is considerably thicker as the other half of the structure - because higher forces and a considerably lower Safety Factor is applied. The third image shows the result when in one event the forces as well as the Safety Factor are doubled. As expected, this has no influence on the structure and it is the same structure as in the first one. The duplication of both the forces and the Safety Factor cancel each other out.