GLOBAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: Based on the foregoing, the goal of this proposed project is to develop a novel methodolog

GLOBAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$80,000
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Solicitation
2012.A
NAICS
Place of performance
AZ
Period
2012-08-15

Description

Based on the foregoing, the goal of this proposed project is to develop a novel methodology based on the peridynamic (PD) theory to predict fatigue life of aerospace structures with high fidelity. A new fatigue model will be implemented in PD framework. The model and its implementation in PD will be validated against experimental measurements. A pre- and post- processor with a graphical user interface will be developed under widely distributed commercial FE software. When complete, this approach will enable the designers/engineers to consider complex component geometries under various loading conditions while accounting for multiple cracks exhibiting complex patterns forming non-planar 3-D surfaces.