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	+ NASA Home + NASA GRC Home + R&T Directorate Home + Structures Division Home + Life Prediction Branch Home		Branch personnel are actively involved in developing software design and analysis tools for simulating and assessing the lifecycle performance of critical structural components. Many of these software programs are used either in conjunction with or as postprocessors to finite element analysis (FEA) programs. In this way, a complete design and analysis package is provided to engineers, enabling cost-effective design of more reliable, efficient, and environmentally conscious components. Listed below are some of the available software codes developed and distrubuted by Branch personnel. CARES - (Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures) Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures (CARES) is a general-purpose series of integrated design software tools that provide an innovative, cost-effective approach to systematically optimize the design of brittle material components using probabilistic analysis techniques. + Read More CAN - (Composite Analyzer) The CAN series of computer programs are available to perform a comprehensive strength of materials based analysis of continuous fiber reinforced composites. + Read More ImMAC - (Integrated Multiscale Micromechanics Analysis Code) The ImMAC suite of software tools enables, for the first time, coupled multiscale analysis of advanced (smart and composite) structures (arbitrary or stiffened), that is from the global to the composite ply to the fiber and matrix constituent scales. + Visit the ImMAC website
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