Through Cracked Holes - Bi-Axial Loading Conditions 10 August 2016 Administrator Bi-Axial loading, New Features (0) One of the items of interest at our recent European Workshop was the solution for through cracks at holes under bi-axial loading. We have recently done some modeling work to look at this case, and have some results for a few basic cases. Plate Width: 4 inches Plate Height: 4 inches Diamet... [More]
Finding Equivalent Crack Growth Rate Data for Similar Steel Alloys Paper 09 April 2015 Alex-Litvinov AFGROW Tips and Tricks, Rules of Thumb, Material data (0) A short article entitled: “Finding Equivalent Crack Growth Rate Data for Similar Steel Alloys” is now available for download. The article summarizes a method that may be useful when looking for an appropriate crack growth rate model for a material that is not directly available in AFGROW. The articl... [More]
Windows XP support has ended 13 February 2015 Alex-Litvinov General, Windows XP (0) On April 8, 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. For AFGROW Users, this means that version 5.2.1.18 will continue to operate, but we cannot guarantee that future AFGROW releases will work with Windows XP. We will remove Windows XP from our list of compatible operating systems, and future ve... [More]
2014 European AFGROW Workshop Summary 13 July 2014 Administrator General, Life Prediction, New Features, User Workshop (0) Predict, Preferences Issues/Suggestions Output intervals printed in "hours" if the option to display life in hours is selected in the Output Intervals tab Also, the crack length plots should be converted to hours In the Propagation Limit tab, the option to stop at a cycle limit should be automa... [More]
AFGROW different versions side by side instalation instructions 10 November 2013 Alex-Litvinov AFGROW Tips and Tricks, installation (0) It is possible to have multiple versions of AFGROW installed on the same computer at the same time. The only limitation is that for the COM purposes there can be only one version of AFGROW registered with Windows. Here are the instructions: Copy the previous version of AFGROW to an external drive... [More]
AFGROW demonstration video 30 March 2013 Alex-Litvinov (0) We've posted an AFGROW demonstration video given at Purdue University in April 2012. It is 52 minutes long, and provides a cursory overview of how to navigate through the interface and perform basic life predictions.