ESRD User Workshop 25 May 2012 Alex-Litvinov AFGROW Tips and Tricks, General (0) 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]
Changing Your Log-In Password 18 April 2012 Administrator AFGROW Tips and Tricks, General (0) In case you've forgotten/misplaced your login password and don't like the new one that's been assigned, here are the directions to change your password: 1. Login with the generated password;2. After you login in, navigate to following page... [More]
2012 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference 11 April 2012 Administrator General, New Features (0) 2012 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference [More]
Predict the crack growth life of a structure containing internal through cracks in a row of fastener holes 14 March 2012 Alex-Litvinov AFGROW Tips and Tricks, Life Prediction, Rules of Thumb (0) 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]
Load Interaction Models - Retardation Models - Something to think about 05 March 2012 Tom-Deiters Life Prediction, Retardation (0) It goes without saying that load interaction is important if the life prediction is to represent reality and not simply be a go no go measure. Often times go no go is good enough. But a lot of the time in the management of aging fleets, a real life prediction can be the difference betwee... [More]
Bending Bug in Legacy AFGROW Version 22 December 2010 scottp General (0) 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]