Abstract: A method for fatigue hot spot screening includes identifying multiple static stress locations neighboring one or more fastener locations and multiple stress concentrations in a finite-element-model of a component in response to analysis results and validated assembly-level analysis results with a computer, generating a fatigue spectrum at each static stress location, generating multiple fatigue analysis control files in response to the fatigue spectrum, reducing the validated assembly-level analysis results, generating a first output file that contains multiple non-fastener stress concentration hot spots in the finite-element-model by a first fatigue analysis at multiple non-fastener stress concentration regions in response to the fatigue analysis control files, calculating one or more local peak stresses for the one or more fastener locations, and generating a second output file that contains multiple fastener hot spots in the finite-element-model by a second fatigue analysis at the fastener locations in res

Abstract: A method for virtual fatigue testing includes reading a coarse-grid finite-element-model of a component from one or more libraries with a computer, and identifying static stress locations neighboring at least one of fasteners and non-fastener stress concentration regions in the component by a static analysis of a component intermediate-grid finite-element-model of the component, identifying hot spot locations in the component intermediate-grid finite-element-model by performing a fatigue screening on the component, generating details for the component intermediate-grid finite-element-model based on the hot spot locations, and predicting crack results by a deterministic durability-and-damage-tolerance analysis of the details for a component fine-grid finite-element-model of the component, calculating a crack margins for the component fine-grid finite-element-model by a probabilistic durability-and-damage-tolerance analysis of the crack results, and generating an output file that contains the final crack initia

Abstract: A method for modeling joints with fasteners includes receiving multiple input parameters of multiple components connectable with one or more fasteners; calculating multiple second level parameters with a computer based on the input parameters; building multiple component models of the components absent the one or more fasteners based on the second level parameters; subtracting multiple bolt bores from the component models; and generating an assembly model by combining the component models with one or more fastener models of the one or more fasteners in the bolt bores. The method further includes applying multiple boundary conditions to the assembly model; applying multiple loads to the assembly model under the boundary conditions to generate multiple analysis key words; and generating an input file based on the analysis key words. The input file is suitable for a finite element analysis.