Once you solve a fracture application with StressCheck®, you won’t want to use another FEA tool for that purpose again. You will experience ease of use, realize superconvergent extractions and receive the high definition feedback you need to guarantee the reliability and accuracy of the computed stress intensity factors (SIF) and energy release rates (ERR).
Fracture Mechanics Applications
When 3D surface flaws in complex parts need to be analyzed, StressCheck® is the logical choice.

StressCheck® is ideally suited for damage tolerance and forensic engineers who need the best representation of 2D or 3D SIF’s, ERR’s and beta factors for input in sophisticated crack growth simulations, or when analyzing repairs for mitigation of cracks.
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Damage Tolerance with Contact Analysis
The influence of hole propping, load transfer and component interaction is critical in the computation of sensitive fracture mechanics parameters. Easily incorporate the effects of contact into your damage tolerance analysis.

Forensic and Damage Assessment Analysis
When performing forensic investigations into flawed or failed components, a software like StressCheck® is needed to accurately simulate ANY crack location, size, shape and path in 3D CAD designs. Don’t limit your investigation and miss a critical detail.

Crack Trajectory and Tendency Analysis
While StressCheck® does not perform stand-alone crack growth or propagation, it provides essential functions needed to predict crack trajectories and growth tendencies. Cracks can be parametrically controlled or driven by external API’s.

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“A screening of existent commercial and non-commercial tools was carried out in respect to their fracture mechanics capabilities, their design abilities, implementation as well as their complexity. Although, there are many software possibilities, only those within the reach of the author were evaluated. This resulted in the selection of the commercial tool StressCheck®. The assessment of crack propagation on compact tension and two stringer specimens governed by the Paris and Forman regimes was satisfactory compared with experimental results using the material data from simple standard specimens.”
Lloren Llopart Prieto (EADS)
Doctoral Thesis, "Modelling and analysis of crack turning on aeronautical structures"