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Fracture Mechanics Applications

Once you solve a fracture application with StressCheck, you won’t want to use another FEA tool for that purpose again. You will experience ease of use, realize superconvergent extractions and receive the high definition feedback you need to guarantee the reliability and accuracy of the computed stress intensity factors (SIF) and energy release rates (ERR).

StressCheck is ideally suited for damage tolerance and forensic engineers who need the best representation of 2D or 3D SIF’s, ERR’s and beta factors for input in sophisticated crack growth simulations, or when analyzing repairs for mitigation of cracks.

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Would you like a no-cost demonstration of our fracture mechanics and DaDT engineering application solutions? Complete our Request an Engineering Application Demo form and we will get back to you shortly.

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When 3D surface flaws in complex parts need to be analyzed for high-resolution fracture mechanics parameters like stress intensity factors, StressCheck is the logical choice.

Fracture Mechanics Application Focus

The following are typical fracture mechanics analysis applications which are routinely performed in StressCheck Professional:

StressCheck® Core
Linear Elasticity Solver
Fracture Mechanics Module
MeshSim Advanced Automesher

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The influence of hole propping, load transfer and component interaction is critical in the computation of sensitive fracture mechanics parameters. Easily incorporate the effects of multi-body contact into your bolted joint and/or filled hole damage tolerance analysis.

Damage Tolerance with Multi-Body Contact Analysis

StressCheck® Core
Linear Elasticity Solver
Fracture Mechanics Module
MeshSim Advanced Automesher

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Applicable Products:

When performing forensic investigations into flawed or failed components, a software like StressCheck® is needed to accurately simulate ANY crack location, size, shape and path in 3D CAD designs. Don’t limit your investigation and miss a critical detail.

Forensic & Damage Assessment Analysis

StressCheck® Core
Linear Elasticity Solver
Fracture Mechanics Module
MeshSim Advanced Automesher

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Applicable Products:

While StressCheck® does not perform stand-alone crack growth or propagation, it provides essential functions needed to predict crack trajectories and growth tendencies. Cracks can be parametrically controlled or driven by external API’s.

Crack Trajectory & Extension Analysis

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Would you like to learn more about our features and solutions for fracture mechanics and DaDT analysis applications? Schedule a Fracture Mechanics Analysis demo with us by completing the below form and we’ll contact you as soon as possible. Thank you!

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“Aerospace materials scientists and structural engineers now have a new state-of-the-art software product called StressCheck, which provides efficient and reliable analysis tools for composite bonded aircraft structures. A composites research team from the aeronautics industry, known as the Composites Affordability Initiative (CAI), has just completed an extensive study of current capabilities in the area of failure analysis tools for composite bonded joints. This study led the CAI team to unanimously choose StressCheck as the software tool to replace as well as radically improve existing industry standard software currently used to size bonded joints.”

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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

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