Kinectrics has extensive capabilities for performing stress analysis using classical analysis and numerical methods. Finite element analyses are performed using ANSYS, ANSYS-CFX, ABAQUS and PATRAN commercial packages. They have a proven track record of use by the nuclear industry in Canada and internationally, and have been developed under Quality Assurance programs.
Specific services are now available from Kinectrics covering:
- Stress analysis of defect-free structural components
- Linear-elastic analysis
- Elastic-plastic analysis
- Elastic-plastic-creep analysis with built-in or user-defined creep law
- Stress analysis of components with local defects
- Local wall thinning
- Blunt flaws
- Bearing pads flaws
- Debris flaws
Analytical Fracture Mechanics
Kinectrics performs fracture mechanics analyses that include:
- Customized developments using Linear-elastic Fracture Mechanics
- Applications of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section XI
- Developments and applications of the CSA N285.8 Standard
- Process-zone methodology for DHC initiation in zirconium alloy pressure tubes
- Fitness-for-service assessments of components with flaws
- Applications of weight function method
Computational Fracture Mechanics
Kinectrics offers a full range of services in computational fracture mechanics, including:
- 2-D and 3-D analyses
- Computation of crack driving force
- Stress Intensity Factor
- Elastic-plastic J-integral
- Simulation of crack growth under constant and cyclic loading
- Size and scale effects for fracture toughness test specimens
- Constraint effects on fracture toughness