DARWIN 10.2 Production Release - October 2025

• Stress intensity factor solutions and enhancements
  • New SIF Solutions for Cracks at Holes
  • Bivariant SIF Solutions Available in All Auto-Modeling Analysis Modes
• New capabilities for fatigue crack growth life and fracture risk assessments
  • Bilinear Paris Small Crack Growth Model
  • Fatigue Crack Growth (FCG) Rate Scatter
  • GP Monte Carlo Support for FCG Rate Scatter
  • FCG Threshold Filtering
  • El Haddad Small Crack Model Enhancement
  • Support for NASGRO Load Spectrum Data Files
  • Crack Path Temperature Gradient Effects
  • Support for Time-Dependent Properties in Vacuum & Air
• New capabilities for low-cycle fatigue (LCF) life assessments
  • LCF Life Screening
  • Total Life (LCF+FCG) Assessment
  • Min LCF Life Screening
  • Min LCF Life Feature Assessment
• New capabilities for residual stress
  • User Definition of Residual Stress Along Curved Surfaces in 2D FE Models
  • Residual Stress Profiles in 2D FE Models Extended to Bivariant Crack Types
  • Bulk Residual Stress Enhancement
• General enhancements
  • Element Refinement Tool Enhancement
  • Hot Corrosion Enhancements
  • Formation Module Programming Guidelines for Improved Execution Speed
• Computational speed and visualization enhancements
  • Autoplate Speed Enhancement for Large 3D FE Models
  • Autozoning Random Access Memory Improvement
  • Critical Initial Crack Size (CICS) Speed Improvements
  • GUI Speed Enhancements for Large 3D FE Models
  • Visualization Toolkit for 2D Geometries
• New pre/post processing capabilities
  • New Capabilities for Viewing Legacy Results Files
  • Fracture Model Export
  • New Capabilities for Assigning Elements via Imported ANSYS CDB Files
  • Focused Text-Based Results Files
  • SIO File Converter Tool

DARWIN 10.0 Production Release -September 2022

• New Features and Enhancements for FAA Certification Assessments
  • Axial Blade Slots
  • Updated Titanium Hard Alpha Anomaly Distributions
  • Security Features for Anomaly Distribution and POD Data
• New General Features
  • 3D GUI Visualization Enhancements
  • SIF Solution for Semi-Elliptical Surface Crack on Hollow Cylinder
  • Constraint-Loss Surface Fatigue Crack Correction Model
  • Python-Based Scripting Tool
• Changes in GUI Menus and FE Models Supported in DARWIN
  • New GUI Menus to Support Objectives-Based Data Structure
  • FE2NEU Finite Element Model Quality Checks (MQCs)
• Speed and Robustness Improvements
  • Autoplate Node-Skipping Enhancement
  • Autoplate Speed Enhancement for Large 3D FE Models
  • Automodeling Speed Enhancements
  • Speed Enhancements for User-Defined Cracks
  • DARWIN Results File Import Speed Enhancements
  • GUI Speed Enhancement for Large 3D FE Models
  • Formation Module Programming Guidelines for Improved Execution Speed
• General Enhancements
  • Updated Limits for Stress Intensity Factor Solutions
  • Deterministic Analysis Enhancement
  • User-Defined Project Rules
  • Setting GUI Preferences via an External File
  • User’s Guide Keyword Search Enhancement