FAC Partners

Dr. Anthony "Tony" Ingraffea, Ph.D. (Colorado, 1977), P.E. (Colorado, Texas and New York) is President of FAC. He has over 45 years of experience in structural mechanics. He is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University where he has co-authored with his students and research associates over 265 peer-reviewed papers in computational and experimental fracture mechanics, and directed over $37M in externally-funded research. See selected list of publications.

Dr. Paul "Wash" Wawrzynek, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1991) is FAC's Managing Engineer. He has over 30 years of experience in computational fracture mechanics, is the principal author of the FRANC suite of codes, and specializes in turbo-machinery and aerospace structures. See selected list of publications.

Dr. Bruce J Carter, Ph. D. (Manitoba, 1992), has over 30 years of experience in geomechanics and computational fracture mechanics. He specializes in simulation of crack growth in complex turbo-machinery components and in coupled fluid-fracture processes. See selected list of publications.

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