With close ties to Cornell University, Fracture Analysis Consultants Inc. (FAC) provides computer-based failure analysis, product and process redesign, and life-prediction capabilities to the aerospace, turbomachinery, petrochemical, and automotive industries. The company offers unique finite and boundary element-based software for simulating the initiation and propagation of cracks in metallic, concrete, rock, and composite structures. The companyâs signature service is interactive consulting, in which FAC works to educate engineering and management personnel in the underlying principles and use of the companyâs software, while also assisting in crafting the solution to the target problem. FAC is also developing commercial state-of-the-art simulation software for the U.S. Navy and Air Force and commercial airframe and engine manufactur
