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Cornell Fracture Group
The
CFG
members
include Prof. Tony Ingraffea, research associates, and graduate students.
The CFG mission is to create, to verify, and to validate state-of-the-art
computational fracture mechanics simulators for
arbitrary crack propagation in engineered and natural structures.
We have included some tutorial and demo
simulations to illustrate some of the features and capabilities of the
simulators. An equally important focus of the group is
education at all levels. Our current and
past research has focused on both experimental testing and numerical
simulation of fatigue and fracture in a variety of materials. The research
has been documented and cited in a number of theses, conference proceedings,
reports, and journal articles.
Recruitment
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Software Releases and Updates
 | Version 3.2 of FRANC3D and OSM for RedHat Linux, and MS Windows have
been posted. Documentation will be posted for version 3.2 if we
ever get time to update it. |
| Updates to BES have been posted. |
| Updates to FRANC2D and Cornell's FRANC2D/L have been posted. The
castofranc translator has been updated to work with Cornell's version of
CASCA and FRANC2D/L. castofranc is available from the Cornell
FRANC2D/L software page. Note that the KSU version or other older
versions of CASCA, FRANC2D and FRANC2D/L used fixed fields of width 5 to
list node id's for elements. We now use a free format and old
versions of the code will not work with the new format. |
NOTE: we try to test all links and all versions of all codes, but if
you find a problem - please send us email.
Disclaimer
If you download and use the software made available here,
please read the Policy Statement on the Software page. Also please
read the News&FAQs if you have trouble using the software, especially 'Cygwin'
executables. We will attempt to answer questions or fix problems in
the software, but we are not obligated to provide such service. If you do
ask for help with a particular problem, please provide as much detail as
possible including input files, drawings, etc. The software that is
provided here is intended for people with experience in fracture mechanics
and boundary or finite elements. Please do not ask us for items that
are not made available here - these types of requests will likely be
ignored.
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CFG Highlights
| Congratulations are due Tony Ingraffea. Tony has
received the Richard J. Almeida Award from Project High Jump. The award
is "given each year to an individual whose dedication and contribution
to High Jump have been extraordinary." The award was established in 2004
by the High Jump Board of Directors in honor of its chairman.
High Jump is an important outreach program, designed to provide support
and stimulus to middle-school students in Chicago, helping them to
prepare for success in some of the most challenging, college preparatory
high schools in the country. For more information, see
http://www.highjumpchicago.org/
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Bazant, Z., Yu, Q., Gerstle, W., Hanson, J., and Ju,
J. W.,
"Justification of ACI 446 Proposal for Updating ACI Code Provisions
for Shear Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams" ACI Structural
Journal, Vol. 104, No. 5, p. 601-610, Sept. - Oct. 2007
has been awarded the 2008 Publication Award of Merit by the
Structural Engineers Association of Illinois. This award lends
support to our shear size effect proposal to ACI 318E.
Professors Gerstle and Hanson are graduates of the
Cornell Fracture Group. Congratulations to both!
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