Pawtucket-based ABAQUS Inc., a supplier of software and services for finite element structural analysis, recently announced that it had been selected by the Boeing Intellectual Property Business to develop and market Boeing technology for prediction of fracture and failure in laminated composite materials.
The technology, a technique known as virtual crack closure, has been used by Boeing and plays an important role in the design of aerospace structures involving composites. Boeing, which was a member of the Composite Affordability Initiative, which began developing the technique, has already filed a patent application and ABAQUS will market the technology.
“This licensing agreement with Boeing will accelerate the availability of new techniques to design composite aerospace structures for superior performance, durability and damage,” said Ken Short, vice president of marketing at ABAQUS. The company provides software solutions for complex linear and nonlinear engineering problems.
