Quest Integrity USA LLC

Quest Integrity, a Team Inc. company (NYSE: TISI), is a global leader in the development and delivery of asset integrity and reliability management services. The company’s integrated solutions consist of technology-enabled, advanced inspection and engineering assessment services and products that help organizations in the pipeline, refining, chemical, syngas and power industries improve operational planning, increase profitability, and reduce operational and safety risks.

Our FEACrack™ software is seamlessly integrated with Abaqus to make start-to-finish modeling and analysis of 3D cracks easier. FEACrack™ is a Windows®-based software product for generating 3D crack meshes in anything from solid rocket motors to fusion reactors in a matter of minutes. Our fracture mechanics experts, who themselves are end-users, developed FEACrack for practical application in a variety of research and commercial settings.

https://www.questintegrity.com/software-products/feacrack

Signal™ Fitness-For-Service (FFS) is a user-friendly, intuitive software tool developed by experts for performing fitness-for-purpose and fracture mechanics analysis on fixed and rotating equipment. It gives engineers the ability to reduce operational and safety risks associated with equipment through its comprehensive adherence to industry standards.

https://www.questintegrity.com/software-products/signal-fitness-for-service

Additional Information

Several videos showing analysis examples using FEACrack with Abaqus are available on the SIMULIA Community.

Conference papers with fracture mechanics analysis examples featuring use of FEACrack and Abaqus are available on our technical papers web page:

https://www.questintegrity.com/articles/engineering-and-consulting-technical-papers

Success with Abaqus and FEACrack:

We presented a paper at the June 2019 NAFEMS World Congress in Quebec City, Canada, where FEACrack with Abaqus was used for the analysis.  Our presentation received the “Best Presented Paper” trophy out of the 300 papers presented.  The paper is available on our web site.  The paper title is: “Ductile Tearing Instability Analysis of Piping Bend with Surface Cracks Using J-R Resistance Curve and 3D Crack Meshes in Elastic-Plastic FEA”.