APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING CRACKING AND PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RECORDING MEDIUM Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC G01N3/28 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: during discretisation of a component under analysis into multiple elements and during analysis, the factor for reducing sheet thickness or the maximum principal deformation in the equivalent position, which includes the same element, are compared either by merging two neighbouring elements after analysis or by changing the size of discretisation of elements of two types and performing analysis, and the element, where the difference is high, is taken as a section at risk of cracking.

EFFECT: high reliability and simple detection of an area at risk of cracking when predicting crack formation using a finite element method.

15 cl, 10 dwg