AFGROW

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ESRD User Workshop

Alex Litvinov (LexTech) gave a presentation at the ESRD (developers of StressCheck) User Workshop, May 15-16 in St. Louis, MO. To view his and other participants presentations, please visit the ESRD Workshop webpage. You will need to log-in first in order to download any of those presentations.&nbs... [More]

Predict the crack growth life of a structure containing internal through cracks in a row of fastener holes

A short paper by Mr. James Harter discussing the use of AFGROW to predict the crack growth life of a structure containing internal through cracks in a row of fastener holes is now available on the AFGROW web site. The paper provided details on the use of the Advanced Model Interface and provides a d... [More]

Bending Bug in Legacy AFGROW Version

While trying to verify some AFGROW solutions for the Single Corner Crack at Hole in bending, I was comparing the Stress Intensity Factors (SIFs) that I compute in a separate Excel spreadsheeet (VBA). My VBA program computes the SIFs from the original Newman Raju curve fits in Chapter 9 of Computatio... [More]
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