Abstract

Pietro Del Negro is a senior CAE engineer at Ricardo’s Rimini Technical Centre in Italy, specialising in motorcycle and light mobility applications, including simulation, analysis, and systems integration for global OEMs and tier-one suppliers.

In this article, Del Negro explains how Ricardo is developing solutions to support its customers to predict the lifecycle of motorcycle components, using finite element analysis (FEA) and fatigue analysis.

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FEMFAT

The globally leading software for finite element based fatigue life prediction

FEMFAT is a universally applicable software program for the fatigue analysis of statically and/or dynamically loaded components and complete systems.

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