Development of a Fracture Simulator Preprocessor for Naval Applications

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An Engage grant is sought to fund the initial research steps to help Martec Limited develop and integrate enhanced fracture simulation capabilities into Martec's structural analysis software package VAST. Martec is a large engineering consulting firm, located in Halifax, which is the developer of several advanced analysis software packages used by the marine, oil and gas and defence industries. Martec's software package VAST has capabilities to model through-the-thickness cracks in the plates that make up the structure of naval ships and submersibles. Martec has identified a need to develop analysis software capable of modeling cracks that partially penetrate the thickness of plates and welds that are found in naval applications; this software will be based on the eXtented Finite Element Method (XFEM) and will be integrated into VAST.