Genoa
Information Sheet
Major milestones:
Version 3.2 released (user’s, training, theoretical
manual, online help), Airframe/engine industry, government trained
Product Highlights:
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Industry Verified, integrated structural
–material analysis/design software suite considers physics and mechanics
(hierarchical micro and macro scale) for structures made of metallic, and
2D/3D composite (laminated, woven, braided, or stitched) materials.
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Durability & damage tolerance: Evaluates
the structural and material response including: life cycle, degradation
of material properties due to initiation, location of failure, and growth
of damage under In-service operations and environments (static, dynamic,
thermal, creep, impact, and low/high/random frequency cyclic fatigue).
Identifies the percent contribution of various possible composite failure
modes. Predicts the inspection interval, and incipient damage locations,
margin of safety predictions.
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Part manufacturability: minimum defect
occurrences (i.e. voids, buckling, wrinkling) and attainable best fit to
a shape, aeroelastic fiber angle orientation, fiber jamming, and
fiber volume fraction, precision manufacturing, smart materials
and processes, and smart structures
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Virtual testing tool: identifies type
of testing, and duplicates the experimental testing process (i.e. photoelasticity,
far field strains, material fracture parameters, strain gage, margin of
safety)
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Probabilistic failure analysis: identification
and sensitivity of progressive damage parameters, uncertainty evaluation
of material strength to material parameters, determines sensitivities of
failure modes to design parameters to facilitate targeting design parameter
changes that will be most effective in reducing probability of a given
failure mode from occurring, and probability of failure.
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Equivalent Material Properties of metallic,
polymer and ceramic composites: moduli, moisture, thermal, and heat
conductivity. Degradation of material properties to environmental
(moisture, thermal), manufacturing (defects, residual strains), etc.
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GUI: Window98 style-easy to use GUI (pre/post
processor visualization & 2D/3D-sterio-graphics animation of simulation
process).
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System Architecture : Modular, heterogeneous,
plug & play, and interface to commercial CAD/FEM, software
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Parallel processing, static, dynamic
load balancing, system optimization of computer resources
Customers:
| Boeing (Seal beach, Long beach, Downey) |
NASA/LaRC |
Lockheed |
| National Institute of Standards |
European Space Agency |
TRW/Sti-Optronics |
| NASA White Sands Test Facility |
Allied Signal Engines |
Air Force |
| Sandia National Laboratory |
Goldsworthy International |
General Electric |
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Available on Platforms: UNIX, NT, Window98,
laptop, parallel process machines (MIMD, SIMD, OSF)
Other Applications:
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Bio-medical research ( mechanical heart)
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Sporting goods (Tennis Rackets, Golf club, bicycles)
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Automotive Industry (i.e. crack initiation of
engine blocks, low cost manufacture of car fenders)
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Computer industry (Chip delamination due to
thermal distortion )
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Museums (degradation of historical artifacts)
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European Space Agency , multidisciplinary CFD/GENOA
application in predicting steady burning rate of solid propellant grains
(including incipient cracks) for space launch application (in progress)
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Seismic retrofit application for bridges, freeway
columns, and buildings
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Litigation , and expert witness
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Turbo machinery
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Virtual manufacturing for NASA/LaRC (NASA/Intelligent
synthesis environment)
Competition:
None
Future direction/enhancements
for GENOA:
A virtual testing desktop laboratory, certified
tool for airlines?
Cost:
Please contact us: Info@alphastarcorp.com (562) 985-1100
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