fe-safe™ provides fatigue life evaluation for lift truck design

Sheffield: NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc ("NMHG") has adopted fe-safe™ and the Verity® in fe-safe™ module, from Safe Technology Ltd. The software will be used to predict the durability of welded structures, castings and individual components in order to provide an understanding of fatigue life earlier in the development process.

fe-safe™ is an advanced suite of durability analysis software for Finite Element models and was chosen due to its strong technical foundation and comprehensive capabilities for identifying fatigue hotspots and predicting fatigue life. NMHG considers the Verity® structural stress method incorporated into fe-safe™ to be the most advanced weld fatigue analysis methodology currently available.

fe-safe™ and Verity® in fe-safe™ will be used by the Product Evaluation Department of NMHG’s Virtual Test Group.

About NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc
Based in the USA, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc . designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, services and leases a comprehensive line of lift trucks, including warehouse trucks, counterbalanced trucks and large capacity cargo and container handling trucks, and aftermarket parts marketed globally under the Hyster® and Yale® brand names.

About Safe Technology Ltd
Based in the UK, Safe Technology Ltd is a privately owned company dedicated solely to the development and sale of the fatigue analysis software suite, fe-safe™. fe-safe™ and its specialist modules are sold and supported directly by offices in the UK and the USA and by a worldwide network of independent distributors.