Overview
In today's rapidly evolving business environment, continuous innovation is essential for enhancing efficiency and productivity. A key area of focus is the modeling of material damage, cracks, and fractures, which enables companies to predict material behavior and identify vulnerabilities under extreme conditions.
- Industrial Sector: Critical for high-stress industries like aerospace and automotive, where component failures can lead to costly downtime.
- Building and Renovation: Assists architects and engineers in identifying structural issues in existing buildings and ensuring the integrity of new constructions, fostering safer and code-compliant designs.
- Sustainability: Employs advanced modeling techniques to minimize waste and optimize energy use, promoting sustainable manufacturing practices.
Current methods of structural assessment often fail to accurately predict failure modes, leading to high repair costs and safety risks. FRACSIM addresses this gap with advanced simulation tools that provide actionable insights for informed decision-making and efficient resource allocation.
Our mission is to develop a robust computational platform for simulating, predicting, and optimizing structural integrity in critical infrastructure globally. By offering precise predictions of fracture and damage evolution, FRACSIM empowers stakeholders to proactively manage potential issues, optimize maintenance, and extend infrastructure lifespan.
Core Values
- Innovation: Continuously enhancing algorithms for superior predictive accuracy.
- Integrity: Committed to the highest standards of regulatory compliance and best practices in infrastructure management.
- Sustainability: Focused on strengthening global infrastructure resilience.
Through strategic partnerships with research institutions, engineering firms, and government agencies, FRACSIM leverages diverse data and expertise to refine its technology and expand market reach, delivering significant value to all stakeholders.
Future Development Opportunities
FRACSIM is committed to exploring new avenues for growth and innovation, including,- Broaden capabilities to include predictive maintenance and asset monitoring.
- Integrating real-time sensor data for immediate insights and responsive decision-making.
- Collaborate with industry leaders to improve infrastructure resilience and safety.
Built on a solid foundation of numerical methods and AI-driven innovation, FRACSIM is positioned to lead the way in enhancing infrastructure resilience and advancing safety, sustainability, and data-driven decision-making
Key Features
At FRACSIM, we specialize in damage modeling, a critical process in numerous engineering applications. Leveraging our extensive expertise in advanced numerical methods and computational simulations, we accurately predict material behavior under varied loading conditions. Our team possesses deep knowledge of the mechanical properties of diverse materials—including metals, polymers, composites, and ceramics—allowing us to model responses to damage phenomena such as fatigue, fracture, and creep with high precision.
FRACSIM Software Highlights
- Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- User-friendly, GPU-optimized interface for efficient navigation.
- Robust tools for creating and editing both 2D and 3D geometries.
- Comprehensive CAD integration, including import and modification from Revit, Gmsh, and FreeCAD.
- Easy import and export options for material libraries.
- High-speed GPU visualization for geometries, mesh setups, and contour displays.
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Capabilities
- Powered by an innovative, displacement-based, transient-anisotropic Gradient-Enhanced Damage Model for advanced fracture simulation.
- Optimized parallel CPU computation support for increased efficiency.
- Compatible with quasi-static steady-state and dynamic transient analysis.
- AI-Enhanced Analysis
- Multi-GPU support for training and testing of neural networks.
- Utilization of data-driven and physics-informed neural network models tailored to fracture simulation.
Our Commitment
We offer customized solutions that align with our clients' specific requirements, working closely with them to deliver innovative, impactful outcomes. Our dedication to exceeding client expectations is integral to our approach, ensuring high-quality, dependable results.
Maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethical integrity in every engagement, we prioritize transparent communication throughout the project lifecycle to foster trust and clarity.
Who We Are
At FRACSIM, we are a passionate team of professionals driven by innovation in fracture simulation and advanced engineering solutions. Founded by Jafar Amani, a PhD graduate in Applied Mechanics from Technical University Delft (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, we leverage his 18 years of experience in research and the development of cutting-edge computational methods. You can reach Jafar directly at jafar@fracsim.nl
Our work is grounded in a belief expressed in the 8th proposition of Jafar Amani's PhD dissertation at TU Delft: "As computational scientists, we should emphasize our role in the scientific field and stress how significant computational methods will be in the world's future." This philosophy shapes our commitment to pushing the boundaries of engineering and fracture simulation.
Our expertise lies in computational mechanics, where we tackle complex multiphysics challenges using advanced simulations. With a focus on practical applications in damage modeling and fracture mechanics, we deliver state-of-the-art solutions that empower our clients to solve their most demanding engineering problems.
We pride ourselves on our strong international collaborations with leading universities and strategic partnerships with a diverse range of companies. These relationships continuously expand our research capabilities and keep us at the forefront of advancements in damage modeling. This ensures that we can create customized, innovative solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of each client.
At FRACSIM, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence. Guided by a shared vision and a collaborative approach, we aim to redefine what's possible in our field and make a lasting impact on the future of fracture simulation.