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PerformingFatigueAnalysisinPVElite
PerformingfatigueanalysisonnozzlesusingPVEliteisasimpleprocess.Letusgothroughthesestepsto
getyourfatigueinformationintoPVElite.
Openupthe'LoadCases'tabbyclickingonthistab,asshownbelow:

OncetheLoadCasestabisactive,clickonthebuttonthatisnextto'FatigueAnalysis'andtheFatigue
Pressure/CycleDataInputscreenappears.Intheboxatthetopcalled'NumberofFatigueCasetoProcess'
enterthenumberofcasesyouwantconsidered,thenenterthethepressurerangeandnumberofcyclesfor
eachrange,afterwhichyouclickonthebuttonatthebottomofthescreenthatsays'SaveCasesandExit'.

AtthispointPVElitehasalltheinformationitneedstoperformthefatigueanalysisonanynozzlesyouaddto
yourmodel.
GetbacktotheGeneralDataInputtabwhereyoufindyourmodelonthescreen.Whenyouaddanozzleto
thevesselusingtheusualnozzleinputscreen,noticethatatthebottomofscreenthecheckbox'Perform
FatigueCalc'.Makesurethisboxischecked,seebelow:

Now,forthePD5500andEN13445models,thedropdownlistlabeled'WeldClass'tothenextofthecheckbox
becomesactive.Chooseasuitableletter(seePD5500AnnexCfordetailsconcerningfatigueclasses).Note,
classCistheleastsever,andWthemostsevere.Entertherestofyournozzledata,ensuringthenozzleis
adequatelyreinforcedinthenormalway.
Whenyouhavefinishedenteringyourvesseldata,andhavecompletedbuildingyourmodel,whenyoupress
thecalculationbutton(runningman),theoutputprocessorwillincludeafatigueanalysisreport.Thatreportwill
containthefullanalysisforallthenozzlesthatyouindicatedtoperformfatigueanalysison:

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