“Vextec's software predicts with scary accuracy how and when products will fail--even before they're made. The simulations, which took only three months to run and required the crunching power of a mere laptop computer, estimated where and when the cracking in the titanium would start--within a quarter of an inch (on a 3-foot-long by 6-inch-wide blade) and within 1% of the number of physical testing cycles. With Vextec's help, "maybe by the fourth [project], the FAA won't make [EB] run any physical tests at all," says Dominick DaCosta, chief operating officer of ders Group Services, an engineering consultancy that advises the FAA on parts testing.”
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