Extend Your Reach: Generate 3D Crack Meshes with FEACrack

Modeling and meshing cracks in complex 3D parts is easier with FEACrack by Quest Integrity Group.

FEACrack is a 3D crack mesh generating software tool which is seamlessly integrated with Abaqus to make start-to-finish modeling and analysis of 3D cracks and local thin areas (LTA) easier. 

Create Abaqus input files, and import and post process results from Abaqus with many options, including J-integral and stress intensity K plots, extracted J and K values along with J path dependence index, K from displacement when using standard mesh, displacement scaling, Output views in terms of Von-Mises stress, forces and displacement, or create  custom stress plots more efficiently.

“The application of FEACrack in the design process of the next generation of NASA space launchers is allowing us to perform 3-dimensional fracture analysis in a more efficient way. With its user-friendly interface, FEACrack provides the best solution for both the expert and the first-time user to create complex meshes in a short time period.”JOEL QUINCIEU, NASA SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER ANALYST,ATK LAUNCH SYSTEMS GROUP. 

Interested in learning more about how FEACrack and Abaqus aid in the NASA  design process?  Read the Customer Paper that Quest Integrity delivered at the 2010 SIMULIA Community Conference (SCC): Friction Stir Plug Weld Crack Meshing for NASA.

Also read their 2012 SCC paper: Using the Failure Assessment Diagram Method with Fatigue Crack Growth to Determine Leak-before Rupture