Funding entity Comisión Europea
Participated by Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas SA, Commission of the European Communities, Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Samtech SA, MSC Software gmbH, Centro Ricerche Fiat s.c.p.a., Volvo Aero Corporation AB, Ncode International Limited
The purpose of the proposed research is the development and validation of improved numerical methods for damage tolerant analysis of life prediction and their integration in high performance computer simulation environments. The analysis is based on fracture mechanics and on the finite element methods and is a direct improvement of the current practice that uses finite elements for the first step preceding the damage tolerance analysis stage (i.e. for the identification of the most likely location of failure), followed by the solution of a ficticious fracture/fatigue problem (i.e. S/N analysis) involving hypotetical flaws of arbitrarily chosen lenghts and orientations.
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