Patent Document ID: 20150227657
Application ID: 14178144
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for designing a component for a circumferential machine using a finite element analysis system including a finite element analysis module for one or more predetermined load cycles, the method comprising: preparing a model of the component using the finite element analysis module including selecting one or more seed nodes, creating a cylindrical coordinate system relative to the selected feature, and an output subset; querying the finite element analysis module for the one or more seed nodes and the cylindrical coordinate system; creating a node set from the one or more seed nodes based on a predetermined geometric path relative to the cylindrical coordinate system and defined by a selected feature of the component to be analyzed; extracting the node set from the finite element analysis module with an output for each element of the output subset for each node of the node set for each load cycle; and presenting a result of extracting the node set with the output for each element.