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84 ©2023 ANSYS, Inc. Sub-cycle Multi-cycle Cyclic Loading Analysis • Support multi-cycles in the CLOAD cyclic loading analysis workflow - Each primary cycle can now have subcycles - Each sub-cycle can have its own number of cycles - The primary cycle has its own separate number of cycles • Consumed by fracture team for fatigue analysis applications in rainflow-counting • Entire analysis is one load step: this avoids significant overhead associated with multiple solves. • Not supported with cycle-jump -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 Sub-cycle Sub-cycle Sub-cycle Primary cycle • Define primary cycle load vs time data • Set number of cycles for each sub-cycle • Set number of cycles of primary cycle E.g. No. of cycles = 4 E.g. No. of cycles = 6 E.g. No. of cycles = 2 Sub-cycle Sub- cycle Primary cycle Primary cycle