VERIFIED CAD → STRESSChecked against textbook answers

From a sentence to a safety verdict.

Describe a part and how it is loaded. KYAMOS builds a computer-aided design (CAD) model and divides it into small connected pieces: the finite-element method (FEM). It calculates stress and a safety margin under the stated assumptions. A model-based verdict supports engineering review; it is not safety certification.

Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom · switch between Metal, Stress and Bending · drag the load slider and the verdict updates instantly. Every number and colour comes from the solver.

Seven real parts, seven honest answers

Angle bracket
1.5 kN sideways push
SAFEfactor of safety 2.43
Lifting lug
60 kN pull on a pinned plate
NOT SAFEfactor of safety 0.70
Pressure pipe
40 MPa inside the bore
SAFEfactor of safety 2.64
Heated rail
Clamped at both ends, warmed by 80 °C
MARGINALfactor of safety 1.01
Mounting plate
3 kN downward push
MARGINAL · UNCERTAINfactor of safety 1.43
Hot bracket
Top on a 200 °C manifold, rest cooled by air, base bolted flat
NOT SAFEfactor of safety 0.40
Pipe start-up
Steam at 250 °C suddenly let into a cold pipe
MARGINALfactor of safety 1.22

“Uncertain” means the stress was still changing when the mesh-size budget ran out. The tool never overstates safety: an unsettled result is labelled as such rather than rounded up to “safe”. The hot bracket is heat turning into stress: its temperatures are solved first on the real shape, then fed into the stress solver. Bolted rigidly flat, it cannot grow as it warms — which is why real hot parts use slotted holes or flexible mounts. Hot steel is also weaker than cold steel, so every point is judged against the strength and stiffness it keeps at its own temperature — the heated rail sits right at the edge (factor 1.01). The pipe start-up follows the warm-up second by second: once warm it is very safe (factor 87), but in the first seconds the hot inside expands against the cold outside (factor 1.22). Drag the time slider or press play.

How it works

01
Understand the request

Plain English becomes a checked simulation setup: which faces are held, where the loads go, what the part is made of. Ill-posed requests are refused, not guessed.

02
Build the part

OpenCASCADE, the software engine for building and measuring engineering shapes, constructs the part using a fixed software version — holes and rounded edges included.

03
Mesh the real shape

The shape is divided into small connected calculation pieces. Curved, 10-point pieces approximate rounded surfaces and resolve bending and hole edges more closely than straight-sided pieces.

04
Refine until it settles

The mesh is made finer level by level until the peak stress stops changing. If it has not settled, the answer says so.

05
Solve and judge

Finite-element stress is compared with the material’s yield strength to give a factor of safety: safe, marginal or not safe.

How we know it’s right

Every capability is locked in by automated checks against problems whose answer is known exactly. The whole system re-runs these checks end to end before anything is shown.

Pipe under internal pressure
Wall stress within 1.5% of the Lamé thick-cylinder formula
Bar bent sideways
Tip deflection within 3% of beam theory (older linear elements: 35%)
Plate with a hole in tension
Stress at the hole edge 3.01× the average — textbook value ≈ 3
Pulling and heating a bar
Exact to the last digit
Steel rail held between two walls and heated
Mid-span stress 198 MPa vs the textbook E·α·ΔT = 192 MPa (3.4%) — heat alone can nearly yield it
Tube, hot inside and cold outside (temperature solved first)
Inner-wall stress within 2.5% of Timoshenko’s formula, and closer on every finer mesh
Free block with a straight-line temperature
Zero stress, as theory demands (exact)
Slab suddenly heated on one face (warm-up over time)
Within 0.12 °C of the exact textbook series solution; heat stored = heat put in
Stress while a part is still warming up
Exact case matched to 0.08%
Fatigue: bar loaded back and forth a few hundred thousand times
Life 386,232 cycles — identical to the textbook stress-life formula
Fatigue: plate with a hole, pulled on and off
Crack site found at the hole edge; peak stress within 3% of the Peterson textbook value
Vibration: steel cantilever, first natural frequency
204.0 Hz vs beam theory 203.8 Hz (0.07%)
Buckling: slender column pushed from the top
Collapse load 10,287 N vs Euler 10,281 N (0.06%)
Pressure pipe cut open in stress view, with internal pressure arrows and the verdict SAFE.

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