Collaborative work between VEXTEC and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics on Additive Manufacturing (AM) has recently been presented at two high-profile aerospace conferences. The work focused on Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) additive techniques for AlSi10Mg and Ti-6Al-4V alloys. VEXTEC's computational VPS-MICRO® product reliability software predicted the fatigue performance of LPBF [...]
VEXTEC is honored to be part of this year’s AIAA SciTech Forum (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). As the world’s largest aerospace technical society, AIAA’s annual SciTech Forum and Exposition is the preeminent event for aerospace research and technology. The 2021 event was originally scheduled to be [...]
Watch our recent presentation on "Computational Modeling of Complex Systems using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)" given at this year's Simulia fe-safe User Group Meeting:
This is the first installment of a new blog series on the physics of fatigue. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. Fatigue can best be considered as a process, rather than an event [1, 2]. The fatigue process [...]
A turbocharger client of ours wanted to improve durability and reduce warranty costs on cast wheels made from a nickel superalloy with a radially-solidified (RS) microstructure. A significant portion of their previous field failures had been attributed to high cycle fatigue (HCF). […]
Visit VEXTEC’s Learning Center for Example Applications This is the final installment of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 [...]
Read Part IV in Blog Series This is the third of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and [...]
Read Part III in Blog Series This is the second of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 3 here. While [...]
Read Part II of Series This is the first of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 2 here. Isaac Newton wrote to Robert [...]