GENOA is an integrated structural analysis/design software suite developed to cost effectively predicts strength, reliability and durability of aerospace structural components at the design stage with minimal experimental testing support.

GENOA progressive failure analysis predicts the crack initiation, growth, and final failure of monolithic and 2D/3D braided/laminated /stitched/woven composite materials. GENOA evaluates the structural and material response including degradation of material properties due to initiation and growth of damage under static, dynamic, thermal, impact, creep, and low/high frequency cyclic fatigue loading conditions.

Failure prediction takes into account defects introduced by:

• manufacturing,
• in-service operations and environments,
• fatigue, and
• material creep

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GENOA Modules: Fact Sheets

• Overview
• FTD FCG
• FW
• MCA
• MCO
• MUA
• PFA
• PFDA
• VCCT / DCZM

GENOA Capabilities:

• Progressive Failure Analysis (PFA)
• Time Dependent Reliability (TDR)
• Virtual Testing (VT)
• Manufacturing
• Life Prediction
• Wrinkling
• Durability

Key Features:

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) 

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

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 

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) 

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

Parallel processing: Parallel processing with dynamic load balancing system with a real timeparallelization algorithm

Industry Applications:

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Engineering and Construction
• Virtual manufacturing
• Turbo machinery
• Bio-medical research
• Sporting goods
• Computer manufacturing