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Aircraft engine manufacturers worldwide use DARWIN to ensure rotor designs are resistant to dangerous cracks. The software identifies where a crack might form, slices the model on the plane where the crack is most likely to grow, determines the stresses that would drive the crack and predicts the crack growth life and fracture risk.