FRANC3D has been used in hundreds of fracture mechanics studies including aerospace turbine components, offshore structures, and fatigue crack propagation modeling; some of these are listed below. If you have a paper that you want us to list here, please email it.
Ammar Al-Hagri, Henrik Stang, Jacob Paamand Waldbjørn, Athanasios Kolios, Evangelos Katsanos. Fatigue crack propagation and life prediction in offshore steel jackets using multi-fidelity modeling and machine learning. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 332. 2026
Andrielli Nunes Teixeira Pereira, Silvia Corbani & José Renato Mendes de Sousa. Numerical assessment of fatigue surface crack growth in the cross section of rigid risers. Ships and Offshore Structures. 2025
Selling,J., Holliday,J., Damiani,T. Explicit Finite Element Fatigue Crack Growth Analysis of an Instrumentation Ring Under Thermal Transient Loading. Proceedings of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference PVP2021-62207. 2021
Delkhosh, E., Khurshid, M., Barsoum, I., Barsoum, Z. Fracture mechanics and fatigue life assessment of box-shaped welded structures: FEM analysis and parametric design. Weld World, 64, 1535-1551. 2020
Loureiro-Homs, J., Gustafsson, D., Almroth, P., Simonsson, K., Eriksson, R., Leidermark, D. Accounting for initial plastic deformation for fatigue crack growth predictions under TMF loading condition. International Journal of Fatigue, 136. 2020
He, J., Yan, J., Margulies, S., Coats, B., Spear, A. An adaptive-remeshing framework to predict impact-induced skull fracture in infants. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 19, 1595-1605. 2020
Canale, G., Kinawy, M., Maligno, A., Sathujoda, P., Citarella, R. Study of Mixed-Mode Cracking of Dovetail Root of an Aero-Engine Blade Like Structure. Appl. Sci. 9(18), 3825. 2019
Narasimhachary, S., Smith, K., Shinde, S., Amann, C., Kadau, K., Iyer, S. Life Assessment of Large Gas Turbine Blades. ASME Turbo Expo, Phoenix, AZ. 2019
Suresh Kumar, R., Rao, B., N., Velusamy, K., Jalaldeen, S. Specimen level and component level simulation of fatigue crack growth behavior under cyclic bending. Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale, 49, 526-535. 2019
Mangardich D., Abrari F., Fawaza Z. A fracture mechanics based approach for the fretting fatigue of aircraft engine fan dovetail attachments. International Journal of Fatigue, 129. 2019
Mangardich D., Abrari F., Fawaza Z. Modeling crack growth of an aircraft engine high pressure compressor blade under combined HCF and LCF loading. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 214, 474-486. 2019
Paspulati A., Veluru K., Akki K., Khattar R., Bosu S., Narasimhachar S. LCF Initiated - HCF Propagated Crack Life Estimation of Gas Trurbine. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo, Oslo, Norway. 2018
Busse,C., Palmert,F., Wawrzynek,P., Sjodin,B., Gustafsson,D., Leidermark,D. Crystallographic crack propagation rate in single-crystal nickelbase superalloys. MATEC Web of Conferences 165, 12th International Fatigue Congress. 2018
Corbani, S., Castro J., Miranda, A., Martha, L.F., Carter, B., Ingraffea, A. Crack shape evolution under bending-induced partial closure. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 188, 493-508. 2018
Narasimhachary, S.B., Bhachu, K.S., Shinde, S.R., Gravett, P.W., Newman, J.C. A single edge notch specimen for fatigue, creep-fatigue and thermo-mechanical fatigue crack growth testing. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 199, 760-772. 2018
Bhachu, K.S., Narasimhachary, S.B., Shinde, S.R., Gravett, P.W. Application of 3D Fracture Mechanics for Improved Crack Growth Predictions of Gas Turbine Components. ASME Turbo Expo, Charlotte, NC. 2017
Fernandes, R., El-Borgi, S., Ahmed, K., Friswell, M.I. Jamia, N. Static fracture and modal analysis simulation of a gas turbine compressor blade and bladed disk system. Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, 3:30. 2016
Slobodskoy, D., Pakhomenkov, A., Azimov, R. Calculated Forecast of Cyclic Life for GTE Disks, Manufactured from Titanium Alloy, Before and After Crack Initiation. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Seoul, South Korea. 2016
McClung,R.C., Wawrzynek,P., Lee, Y., Carter, B.J., Moody, J.P., Enright, M.P. An Integrated Software Tool for High Fidelity Probabilistic Assessments of Metallic Aero-Engine Components. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, Seoul, South Korea. 2016
Ewest, D., Almroth, P., Sjodin, B., Simonsson, K., Leidermark, D., Moverare, J. A modified compliance method for fatigue crack propagation applied on a single edge notch specimen. International Journal of Fatigue, 92, 61-70. 2016
Storgards, E., Simonsson, K., Sjostrom, S. Three-dimensional crack growth modelling of a Ni-based superalloy at elevated temperature and sustained loading. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 81, 2-10. 2016
Garcia, I.G., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R., and Mantic, V. A numerical study of transverse cracking in cross-ply laminates by 3D finite fracture mechanics. Composites Part B 95, 475-487. 2016
Rao, V.N. and Eischen, J.W. Failure analysis of mixed mode crack growth in heavy duty truck frame rail. Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis, 5-6, 67-74. 2016
Davis, B.R., Wawrzynek, P.A., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea A.R. 3-D simulation of arbitrary crack growth using an energy-based formulation - Part II: Non-planar growth. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 154, 111-127. 2016
Busse, C. Accounting for non-linear effects in fatigue crack propagation simulations using FRANC3D. Master Thesis, Mech Eng, Linkoping University. 2014
Pettit, R., Annigeri, B., Owen, W, Wawrzynek, P. Next generation 3D mixed mode fracture propagation theory including HCF-LCF interaction. Engineering Fracture Mechanics 102, 1-14. 2013
Banks-Sills, L., Wawrzynek, P.A., Carter, B.J., Ingraffea, A.R., Hershkovitz, I. Methods for calculating stress intensity factors in anisotropic materials: Part II-Arbitrary geometry. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 74, No 8, pp 1293-1307. 2007