System Requirements
Recommended System Configuration
The following system configuration is recommended for running StressCheck Professional on Windows 10 OS:
- Intel Xeon CPU @ 2.5 GHz or greater
- 32 GB Random Access Memory (RAM)
- 1 TB SSD scratch disk with SAS disk controller
- NVIDIA/AMD graphics card with 4 GB RAM or greater
- Windows 10 Professional
- Microsoft .NET 4.5 Framework
- Adobe Reader (for offline documentation)
Minimum System Configuration
The following minimum system configuration is required to run StressCheck Professional on Windows 10 OS:
- 8 GB Random Access Memory (RAM)
- 20 GB free disk storage
- OpenGL-compliant video card
Note: Operational efficiency of StressCheck is dependent upon the amount of RAM, the number of processor cores, disk speed and available scratch disk space. The more memory and disk space that you provide, the better StressCheck will perform.
Benchmark Examples
For example, the below benchmark of 22770 3D tetrahedra representing a rib section under torsion was solved at p=5 (~1.6M DOF, 6 minutes) in StressCheck v11 Update 1 and required 13.2 GB of disk space and approximately 2 GB of RAM during solution processing:
And this benchmark of 9532 3D elements (9160 tetrahedra, 212 pentahedra and 160 hexahedra) of a longeron section under bearing/bypass loading was solved at p=6 (~1.1M DOF, 7 minutes) in StressCheck v11 Update 1 and required 17 GB of disk space and approximately 3.3 GB of RAM during solution processing:
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“The p-type element has been used to great advantage in the finite element system ESRD StressCheck, [26]. This software provides the engineer with the means to conduct solution verification in an extremely straightforward manner by simply increasing the degree of the element, monitoring convergence and using Richardson extrapolation reliably to estimate the error. This can be conducted automatically by the software thereby enabling the engineer to concentrate on the engineering rather than the simulation. StressCheck has also been used to develop ESRD’s Handbook and Toolbox applications. The first of these provides engineers with a repository of parameterised standard problems of the type found in texts like Roark’s “Formulas for Stress and Strain”, [27]. The second, Toolbox, is a tool that can be used to parameterise a company’s range of components for rapid and reliable analysis by non-expert analysis. Toolbox then is an exemplary of the way in which the democratisation of simulation can be applied.”
Angus Ramsay, PhD
Engineering Director, Ramsay Maunder Associates