KEY TERMS:
 NASGRO®
FLAGRO
life
assessment
crack
growth
fracture
 mechanics
damage
tolerance
structural
integrity
analysis
materials
database
consortium
software
stress
intensity
factor
boundary
element
method
fracture
control
critical
crack size
NASA
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NASFORM
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Fatigue Crack Formation Analysis (Initiation) capability is now available
within NASGRO® as a separate module having its own GUI. NASFORM contains a
stress-life model, four different strain-life equations and the ability to
input tabular strain-life data. ESAFATIG and FORM98 were adapted and
incorporated into NASGRO as the new NASFORM module.
Materials
Engineering Department
Structural Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineering
Division
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