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Fracture Analysis Consultants, Inc. 121 Eastern Heights Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-257-4970 http://www.fracanalysis.com |
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Welcome! This site contains a brief description of the Fracture Analysis Consultants, Inc. company, personnel, and the services that we provide. Feel free to contact us for more information or follow the links to the Cornell Fracture Group for more details and information related to our software and analysis capabilities.
Our MissionFracture Analysis Consultants, Inc. (FAC) was founded in 1988 as a spin-off from high-technology R&D at Cornell University. Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art services in computational fracture mechanics to industry. The technological basis for this mission is a suite of analysis and simulation programs which integrate linear and non-linear fracture mechanics with finite and boundary element methods, advanced geometry and mesh models representations and database design, automatic mesh generation and modification, and effective computer visualization. FAC recognizes the need for agility in responding to today’s rapidly changing corporate engineering environments. We provide client-specific component analysis, failure analysis, structural health prognosis, collaborative analysis, software installation and support, customized software, and training workshops.
Our SoftwareOur unique software has been developed specifically for analysis and simulation of arbitrary crack growth, in arbitrary structures, under arbitrary boundary and initial conditions. We rigorously separate the tasks of meshing from those of geometry representation so that cracks can take any shape predicted by the physics and mechanics of the problem at hand, without any crack shape restrictions or other simplifying assumptions. Our software is highly interactive and graphical, and all remeshing associated with non-planar, arbitrary crack propagation is performed automatically.
Our ClientsUsing our FRANC family of codes as the basis for analysis and simulation, FAC provides engineering consulting, education, and training services to a broad spectrum of industrial and government clients in:
PrincipalsDr. Anthony “Tony” Ingraffea, Ph.D. (Colorado, 1977), P.E. (Colorado and New York) has 30 years of experience in structural mechanics. He is President of FAC, and the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell University where he has co-authored with his students and research associates over 200 papers in computational and experimental fracture mechanics, and directed over $27M in externally-funded R&D. Dr. Paul “Wash” Wawrzynek, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1991) has over 20 years of experience in computational fracture mechanics. He is Chief Technology Officer of FAC, is the principal author of the FRANC suite of codes, and specializes in turbo-machinery and aerospace structures. Wash is also a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University as a member of the Cornell Fracture Group. Dr. Bruce Carter, Ph. D. (Manitoba, 1992), has over 20 years of experience in geomechanics and computational fracture mechanics. He is FAC’s Principal Engineer, and specializes in simulation of crack growth in complex turbo-machinery components and in coupled fluid-fracture processes. Bruce is a member of the Cornell Fracture Group also.
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