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 I am working mostly on FRANC3D Version 5 software and keeping the old software running!  A lot of my work over the past few years is proprietary, funded by GE or Pratt & Whitney.  Lately, I have been modeling fretting fatigue, coupling FRANC3D with ANSYS, ABAQUS, and NASTRAN for 3D finite element based crack growth simulation.

Some of my past research, I can talk about, however.  I worked part-time on a project funded by Kodak to simulate transverse fracturing in multi-layered plastic sheets using FRANC2D and ABAQUS.  I also worked on developing 3D crack growth simulation capabilities within FRANC3D, for simulating 3D hydraulic fracture and for simulating 3D crack growth in rock under compression .  I spent some time making our 3D boundary element program (BES) run on the Cornell Theory Center's Velocity cluster. The goal of this research work was to enable parallel hydraulic fracture simulation.

Research/Work

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Research/Project Engineer,  Fracture Analysis Consultants Inc., Ithaca, NY
1995 - present

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Senior Research Associate/Visiting Fellow, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University 1995 - present

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University 1992 - 1995

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Graduate Research Assistant, Civil and Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba 1986 - 1992

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Summer Research Assistant, Underground Research Laboratory, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Lac du Bonnet, MB 1986

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Consulting Engineer, Dr. Germanovich, Georgia Institute of Technology and Shell Oil
1999-2001

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Consulting Engineer, Dr. Ingraffea, Ithaca , NY and ABB Power T&D 1996 - 1997

Lecturer/Teaching Assistant

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Environmental Protection and Waste Geotechnics, 4th Year Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1992

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Mechanics of Solids, 2nd Year Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1991

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Mechanics of Geological Materials, 2nd Year Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1990 - 1991

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Groundwater - Geohydrology, 4th Year Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1990

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Applied Rock Mechanics, 4th Year Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1987

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Engineering Graphics, 1st Year Engineering, University of Manitoba, 1988  - 1991

Journal, Conference and Book Chapter Publications

  1. Carter, B.J., Schenck, E.C., Wawrzynek, P.A., Ingraffea, A.R., and Barlow, K.W. (2011) Three-dimensional Simulation of Fretting Crack Nucleation and Growth, in preparation for Engineering Fracture Mechanics.

  2. Wawrzynek, P.A., Carter, B.J., and Ingraffea, A.R., "Advances in Simulation of Arbitrary 3D Crack Growth using FRANC3D/NG," to appear in the proceedings of ICF12, Ottawa, July 2009.

  3. Corbani,S., Miranda, A., Marthaa, L.F., Castro, J.T. and Carter, B.J. (2010) Investigations in a cracked plate under bending, MECOM - CILAMCE, Buenos Aires,Argentina.

  4. Olsen, Kirk W., Rimnac, Clare M., Wawrzynek, Paul A. and Carter, Bruce J. (2007) Fatigue Crack Growth Analyses of Aerospace Threaded Fasteners; Part IV: Numeric Analyses and Synthesis of All Results, ASTM STP 1487, Structural Integrity of Fasteners Including the Effects of Environmental and Stress Corrosion Cracking.

  5. Banks-Sills, L., Wawrzynek, P.A., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Hershkovitz, I. (2007) Methods for calculating stress intensity factors in anisotropic materials: Part II—Arbitrary geometry, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 74, No 8, pp 1293-1307.

  6. Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Engelder, T. (2001)  Modeling Ithaca’s Natural Hydraulic Fractures, 10th International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Tuscon, AZ, Jan 7-12, 2001.

  7. Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Heber, G. (2000)  Simulating 3D HF in a Parallel Computing Environment, Three Dimensional and Advanced Hydraulic Fracture Workshop, Pacific Rocks 2000: Rock Around the Rim, Fourth North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 29, 2000.

  8. Carter, B.J., Chen, C-S., Chew, P., Chrisochoides, N., Gao, G.R., Heber, G., Ingraffea, A.R., Krause, R., Myers, C., Nave, D., Pingali, K., Stodghill, P., Vavasis, S., and Wawrzynek, P. (2000)  Parallel FEM Simulation of Crack Propagation – Challenges, Status, and Perspectives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1800, Parallel and Distributed Processing, Proc. 15th IPDPS, Cancun, Mexico, May, 2000, p.443-449. 

  9. Carter, B.J., Wawrzynek, P.A., Ingraffea, A.R., (2000)  Automated 3D Crack Growth Simulation, Gallagher Special Issue of Int. J. Num. Meth. Engng., Vol 47, pp. 229-253.

  10. Carter, B.J, Desroches, J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Wawrzynek, P.A. (2000)  Simulating Fully 3D Hydraulic Fracturing, in "Modeling in Geomechanics" Ed. Zaman, Booker, and Gioda, Wiley Publishers, 730p.

  11. Carter, B.J, Weng, X., Desroches, J., Ingraffea, A.R. (1999)  Hydraulic Fracture Reorientation: Influence of 3D Geometry,  Hydraulic Fracture Workshop, 37th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, Vail, CO, June 1999.

  12. Singh, R., Carter, B.J., Wawrzynek, P.A., Ingraffea, A.R. (1998) Universal crack closure integral for SIF estimation, Eng. Fract. Mech., Vol 60, No 2, p 133-146.

  13. Shah, K.R., Carter, B.J., and Ingraffea, A.R. (1997) Hydraulic fracturing simulation in  a parallel computing environment, Int. J. Rock Mech. & Min. Sci., Vol 34, No. 3-4, Paper No. 282, presented at the 36th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, Columbia, University, NY, July, 1997.

  14. Carter, B.J., Chen, C-S., Ingraffea, A.R. and Wawrzynek, P.A. (1997)  A topology based system for modeling 3D crack growth in solid and shell structures, in "Advances in Fracture Research", Invited Lecture for the Ninth International Conference on Fracture, Sydney, Australia, April, 1997, p. 1923-1934.

  15. Desroches, J. and Carter, B.J., (1996) 3 dimensional modelling of a hydraulic fracture, in "Tools and Techniques in Rock Mechanics", 2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS'96, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June, 1996, p.995-1002.

  16. Germanovich, L.N., Carter, B.J., Dyskin, A.V., Ingraffea, A.R. and Lee, K.K., (1996) Mechanics of 3D crack growth in compression, in "Tools and Techniques in Rock Mechanics", 2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS'96, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June, 1996, p. 1151-1160.

  17. Ingraffea, A.R., Carter, B.J. and Wawrzynek, P.A., (1995) Application of computational fracture mechanics to repair of large concrete structures, in “Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures”, Vol. 3, Edited by Folker Wittmann, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures (FRAMCOS2), Zurich, Switzerland, AEDIFICATIO Publishers, July, 1995.

  18. Germanovich L.N., Ring, L.M., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R., Dyskin, A.V. and Ustinov , K.B.  (1995)  Simulation of crack growth and interaction in compression.  In Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Rock Mechanics, Tokyo, Japan, Vol 1, p.219-226, Rotterdam and Brookfield, Balkema.

  19. Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Bittencourt, T.N.  (1995)  Topology-controlled modeling of linear and non-linear 3D-crack propagation in geomaterials. in “Fracture of Brittle Disordered Materials: Concrete, Rock and Ceramics”.  Proceedings of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brisbane, Australia, September, 1993, Edited by:  G. Baker and B. Karihaloo, E&FN Spon Publishers, p.301-318.

  20.   Wawrzynek, P.A., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R. and Potyondy, D.O.  (1994)  A topological approach to modeling arbitrary crack propagation in 3D  in “DIANA Computational Mechanics 94”.  Proceeding of the 1st International DIANA Conference on Computational Mechanics, Delft , The Netherlands , Edited by:  G. Kusters and M. Hendriks.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, p.69-84.

  21.   Carter, B.J., Wawrzynek, P.A., Ingraffea, A.R. and Morales, H.  (1994)  Effect of casing on hydraulic fracture from horizontal wellbores.  1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, June 1-3, Edited by P.P. Nelson and S.E. Laubach, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p.185-192.

  22.   Carter, B.J., Wawrzynek, P.A. and Ingraffea, A.R.  (1994)  Effects of casing and interface behavior on hydraulic fracture.  8th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Morgantown, West Virginia, May 22-28, Edited by H.J. Siriwardane and M.M. Zaman, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p.1561-1566.

  23.   Lajtai, E.Z., Carter, B.J. and Duncan , E.J.S.  (1994)  En echelon crack-arrays in potash salt rock.   Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Vol 27, No 2, p.89-111.

  24.   Sousa, J.L.S., Carter, B.J. and Ingraffea, A.R.  (1993)  Numerical simulation of 3D hydraulic fracture using Newtonian and power-law fluids.  International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science & Geomechanics Abstracts, Vol 30, No 7, p.1265-1271, presented at the 34th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin.

  25.   Carter, B.J. and Lajtai, E.Z.  (1992)  Stress and time dependent fracture around cavities in physical models of potash salt rock.  Proceedings of the International Society of Rock Mechanics Symposium, EUROCK'92, Chester, England, Edited by J.A. Hudson, p. 269-274.

  26.   Carter, B.J., Lajtai, E.Z. and Yuan, Y.G.  (1992)  Tensile fracture from circular cavities loaded in compression.  International Journal of Fracture, 57, p. 221-236.

  27.   Carter, B.J.  (1992)  Size and stress gradient effects on fracture around cavities.  Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 25, p. 167-186.

  28.   Carter, B.J. and Lajtai, E.Z.  (1992)  Rock slope stability and distributed joint systems.  Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 29, p.53-60.

  29.   Lajtai, E.Z., Carter, B.J. and Duncan , E.J.S.  (1991)  Mapping the state of fracture around cavities.  Engineering Geology, 31, p. 277-289.

  30.   Lajtai, E.Z., Duncan , E.J.S. and Carter, B.J.  (1991)  The effect of strain rate on rock strength.  Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 24, p. 99-109.

  31.   Carter, B.J., Duncan , E.J.S. and Lajtai, E.Z.  (1991)  Fitting strength criteria to intact rock.  Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 9, 73-81.

  32.   Carter, B.J., Lajtai, E.Z. and Petuhkov, A.  (1991)  Primary and remote fracture around underground cavities.  International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 15, p. 21-40.

  33.   Lajtai, E.Z., Carter, B.J. and Ayari, M.L.  (1990)  Criteria for brittle fracture in compression.  Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 37, p. 59-74.

  34.   Ayari, M.L., Carter, B.J., Lajtai, E.Z. and Stimpson, B.  (1989)  Modelling mining induced fracture using the 386 PC.  42nd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada .

  35.   Lajtai, E.Z., Carter, B.J. and Ayari, M.L.  (1989)  The fracture of rock and the science of fracture mechanics.  Workshop Notes on Safety Assessment of Concrete Dams, Fracture Mechanics and Current Practices, Held at:  Acres Int. Ltd., Niagara Falls , Ontario , Canada.

On-Line Publications/Documentation

  1. Cornell Fracture Group, (2003) FRANC3D Concepts and Users Guide. 

  2. Cornell Fracture Group, (2003) FRANC3D Menu and Dialog Reference. 

  3. Cornell Fracture Group, (2003) FRANC3D/OSM Tutorial.   

  4. Cornell Fracture Group, (2003) OSM Menu and Dialog Reference. 

  5. Cornell Fracture Group, (1996) FRANC3D Validation and Verification.

  6. Cornell Fracture Group, (1996) HYFRANC3D Users Guide and Menu Reference. http://www.cfg.cornell.edu/software/software_documentation.htm.

 

 

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