Why use Zencrack?

Cost benefit

Zencrack provides a state-of-the-art capability for modelling and analysing 3-dimensional cracks, predicting their behaviour under static loading and their growth under both fatigue and time-dependent loading.

By using Zencrack you can:

• increase the efficiency and productivity of your 3D fracture mechanics workforce
• reduce your pre and post-processing time for 3D finite element crack analysis
• analyse problems that cannot be tackled using conventional fracture mechanics methods

In the past, the generation of finite element meshes for 3D fracture mechanics applications was both time-consuming and difficult. The evaluation of stress intensity factors was generally limited to simple planar cracks in 3D structures, usually under mode I loading only. Non-planar crack growth prediction in 3D structures was virtually impossible. Now, Zencrack removes these limitations by providing a fracture mechanics analysis capability that can be used to generate cost-effective solutions to otherwise intractable problems.