DARPA TECH 2007
Professor Ingraffea, Gerd Heber, Mike Veilleux attended the DARPA Tech meeting:
http://www.darpa.mil/
DARPATech2007/index.html

FraMCoS-6 June 17-22, 2007
John Emery, Jake Hochhalter and Professor Ingraffea recently delivered
the plenary session presentation that led off the conference. Using supercomputing to assist in simulation of crack growth in a multiscale method was presented and analogies between simulation trends in concrete and aluminum were drawn. The paper and presentation are available along with a simple movie demo.

George R. Irwin Medal of the American Society for Testing and Materials presented to Anthony R. Ingraffea November 13, 2006 in recognition of his pioneering and outstanding contributions to the advanced computational simulation of fatigue and fracture processes and the resulting improved understanding necessary for practical applications of fracture mechanics to the assessment of integrity in engineering structures. This award is largely the result of collaboration with Dr. Wash Wawrzynek and Dr. Bruce Carter, Research Associates in the Cornell Fracture Group.
 

Professor Leslie Banks-Sills - awarded the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Chair in Mechanics and Biomechanics

For details see: http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/research/chairs.html
 

Professor Ingraffea named new Co-Editor of Engineering Fracture Mechanics

As of August, 2005, Professor Ingraffea has succeeded Prof. Bob Dodds as Co-Editor of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, the premier journal of its genre. Professor Karl-Heinz Schwalbe will continue as the other Co-Editor.
 

Professor Ingraffea named acting Director of the Cornell Theory Center
 

Congratulations to Jim Hanson on the following:

Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award, 2006. National award from the American Society for Engineering Education.

Young Member Award for Professional Achievement, 2006. National award from the American Concrete Institute.

Daniel V. Terrell Award, 2005. Presented for the Outstanding Paper in District Nine (Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas) of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
 

Computational Materials Institute Deploys World's Fastest Windows Cluster Dedicated to Computational Materials Science Research

The Computational Materials Institute (CMI), a unit of the Cornell Theory Center (CTC), has deployed the world's fastest Windows-based high-performance computing cluster dedicated to basic research in computational materials science. 

News update March 15, 2004:

Congratulations to Mike Veilleux, CEE MS/PhD Structures, on winning a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship!   The application process was very strict and competitive.

The fellowship will provide Mike with full tuition paid for 4 years, a yearly stipend of $31,000, a yearly allowance of $1,000 for research and up to $2,500 for a computer workstation.  A three-month practicum is required at one of the DOE's twelve research laboratories located throughout the nation.

CSGF identifies and provides support to the very best computational science graduate students nationally.  Past graduates and recipients of this award, work in DOE laboratories, private industry, and educational institutions.   For more information about DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, visit http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/

Mr. Veilleux's advisor is Professor Anthony Ingraffea, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director, Cornell Fracture Group, Associate Director, of the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering.

News update November 5, 2003:

Version 3.1 of Casca was added; this version will write franc2d input files with more than 9999 nodes and therefore is compatible with Version 3.1 of franc2d and not compatible with Version 2.7 of franc2d.

News update December 3, 2002:

A Windows version of franc2d Version 3.1 and a new Windows version of Casca have been added to the software download page. This version of franc2d is able to read more than 10,000 nodes. The wdb files from franc2d Version 2.7 are not compatible. We have a translator, but it is not working correctly yet.

News update April 10, 2002:

At the 2002 Graduate Engineering Research Symposium held on March 29^th, Erin Iesulauro, a CEE graduate student advisee of Prof. Tony Ingraffea and member of the Cornell Fracture Group, presented a poster titled "Microstructure Modeling for Fatigue Crack Initiation in Metallic Polycrystals." She received one of five Poster Presentation Awards. Winners of the Poster Presentation Awards and Oral Presentations and their advisors were invited to display posters at the Engineering College Council Dinner on April 10, 2002.

News update June 4, 2003:

Version 2.4.3 of FRANC3D fixes a couple of bugs from V2.4.2 - notably - a problem in meshing surfaces where crack edges are kinked, incorrect tau_max and strain energy density plots from BES results, and incorrect face and edge boundary conditions in some cases where MRPs were defined.

franc3d version 1.15 was updated after several bug fixes.

A beta release of franc3d Version 2.0 is ready. Executables for Windows 2000/NT, RH Linux 7.0 and Solaris 2.6 are available at this time.
Go to the SOFTWARE page and then go to the FRANC3D section.

franc3d version 1.15 was compiled for Cygwin 1.3.2 and XFree86 1.4.0 under Windows 2000. This version is for those people who do not have Exceed and cannot afford the license. It requires that you install Cygwin and Xfree86 which can be downloaded for free from www.cygwin.com
If you have Exceed (www.hummingbird.com) and are missing some Exceed dll's, they can be found on our anonymous ftp server (ftp.cfg.cornell.edu) in pub/bruce.

New executables for Bes Version 5 have been placed on the server. This fixes a problem with automatic crack growth from within franc3d.

The results of the international collaboration on fracture toughness testing are now available.

BES was recompiled for RH Linux and put a new version on the server. The previous version was giving garbage results due to a compiler bug.

New versions of FRANC3D/OSM/BES were placed on the server this morning. The BES package consists of only four executable files now. Any of the BES executables can be started from within FRANC3D now. The current version of FRANC3D will work only with BES Version 5. You can still use older versions of BES from the terminal window. The MS Windows versions of FRANC3D will start BES and wait for it to finish. If this is not desired, then start BES manually from the DOS/CMD window. The BES executables need to be in your PATH or in the working directory.

News update May 14, 2000:

I put new versions of FRANC3D for MSWin95/98 and for MSWinNT/2000 on the server this morning. This fixes a bug related to the creation of new surfaces. Thanks to Jens for pointing it out. I will be away this week, but please e-mail bug reports to me (see e-mail address below).
NOTE: set your screen to 1024x768 or higher; 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor is okay.
NOTE: BES can only be run from the command terminal window (not from within franc3d) under MSWindows.

News update May 12, 2000:

I put versions of OSM, FRANC3D, and BES on the server for a number of platforms. I will likely repackage BES in a couple of weeks when I get time and make sure that it is optimized for each platform. FRANC3D is really at version 1.15, but it might still have 1.14 in the upper right hand corner. I have a couple more platforms that I think I still have access to (SG IRIX 6.5 32bit, IBM AIX 4.3) and I will add these when I get time.

News update May 8, 2000:

I put versions of OSM and FRANC3D on the server for MS Win95/98 and MS WinNT/2000. These versions were compiled with MS VC++ and linked against Exceed XDK 6.2 libraries. You need to have a copy of Exceed to run these. (See the Hummingbird link below.) If you are missing dll's, send me e-mail (see e-mail address below). I know that the executables work with Exceed versions 6.1 and 6.2, I don't know about earlier versions. For 6.1, start the Xserver first.

News update April 21, 2000:

I am putting new versions of Bes on the server tonight. I am only putting the serial versions for MSWindows and RedHat6.2 Linux up right now. The MSWindows versions were developed under Win2000, but should run on other variants (maybe). I have a parallel version working under Win2000 using MPIPro and I can give it to anyone who wants to try it (see e-mail address below). The README in the bin subdirectory describes how to run the new version. It is a lot simpler now - no more logical links - and is hopefully more stable across networked drives. Other platforms will be supported in the near future (depending on who asks first).

News Update April 12, 2000:

Yes, it has been a while since this was updated. We are going to finish Version 2 of franc3d one day soon. Yes, we will have a native MSWindows version finished one of these days too. In the mean time, we have updated franc3d and osm for some platforms. The updates include bug fixes and some additional features. We need to update the executables for all of our codes for the other UNIX platforms, but this is not a high priority on our end. If you don't see updates for your platform, send us e-mail and we will try to update the code (we are dropping support for some of the old UNIX systems).

We have placed executables of osm and franc3d for RedHat6.0 Intel Linux and for Cygwin V1.0 on the server. The Cygwin versions require an Xserver -> I can recommend Exceed from Hummingbird. In fact we have versions compiled with the XDK libraries using MS Visual C++, but we are not distributing these at this time. (If you have a licensed version of Exceed including the XDK libraries and you want to try this version, you can contact us.)

The Cygwin versions require the Cygwin V1.0 (I don't know if B20 will work) libraries and the relevant X11R6.4 libraries which you can get from sourceware.cygnus.com. The current versions were compiled on a Win2000 PC. I will put Win95 versions up this week hopefully (the Win2000 versions crash under Win95).

We will be putting up new executables for Bes soon, including versions for MSWindows. We are still testing and we will need to modify the documentation describing how to run the executables.

We will be upgrading to RH6.2 Intel Linux in the next few weeks. We do not intend to support more than one variation of Linux.

If you have trouble downloading software via the www server, try anonymous ftp using vienna.cfg.cornell.edu.

News Update March 3, 1999:

We put ZIP'ed MSWord97 (.doc) files for all the reference and tutorial documentation on the server today. A number of people could not print our PostScript files due to the Macintosh printer driver that we used within MSWord. These ZIP files should be compatible with MSWord97 under MSWindows and MSWord98 on the Macintosh. We won't be supporting any other formats, so please don't even ask.

Version 2.0 of franc3d is almost ready. We keep finding more things that need fixing and modifying before the final release; these are mostly to support 3D finite elements and various commercial FEM analysis code file formats. Please, check back in a couple of weeks.