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InDepth FastenerPro by InDepth Engineering Solutions

Versatile software for evaluating and optimizing the factor of safety for a wide range of fasteners – such as bolts, rivets, pins, spot welds, etc. – based on output from finite element analysis (FEA) of complex structures with multiple load cases. Supports output from popular FEA solvers, evaluates per Shigley, AISC, GB, and EN standards, includes inbuilt bolt data library, offers an intuitive GUI, and more.

Why InDepth FastenerPro?

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Efficient Product Development

FastenerPro's automation and scalability enhance productivity, efficiency, and accuracy, accelerating design iterations and reducing product development costs.

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Comprehensive Analysis

FastenerPro eliminates the constraints of manual calculations and basic calculators, enabling a complete assessment of every fastener in a system.

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Achieve Optimal Design

FastenerPro facilitates the optimization of fastener size, grade, and quantity, reducing the mass and providing cost benefits, even in the most complex systems.

Key Features

Versatile Software

Evaluate and optimize the factor of safety (FoS) for a wide range of fasteners – such as bolts, rivets, pins, spot welds, and more.

Blazing Fast

Intelligently processes FEA solver output files containing data for thousands of fasteners from numerous loads cases and calculates FoS in seconds.

Evaluation Standards

The current release supports the Shigley Method, AISC/RCSC, and GB-50017 standards, with VDI-2230, Eurocode-3, and EN-13814 planned for future releases.

Built-In Fastener Database

Contains typical SAE, ASTM, ISO, HUCK bolts and blind rivet data (size, preload - if applicable, strength etc.) with an option to import custom data as needed.

FEA Solver Neutral

Supports output from popular FEA solvers such as Nastran, Altair® OptiStruct®, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, SolidWorks, and more - using a solver-neutral file format.

Microsoft Excel Integration

All raw and calculated data can be exported to an Excel workbook for custom post-processing (screening, iterations, reporting etc.).