Every Crack Tells a Story

Speaker: Don Shockey, Associate Director, Center for Fracture Physics

In this podcast SRI's Don Shockey explains the importance of fracture
physics - understanding how and why things break. Learn how SRI researchers use FRASTA technology to reconstruct crack propagation and determine the conditions that led to the failure of a gas pipeline or an aging aircraft. Find out how SRI uses this unique technology to predict a structure's lifetime and assist in developing safer designs for the future.

Date: 03/02/2011
Duration: 05:13
Size: 4.78MB

Related topics:

Center for Fracture Physics

Failure analysis

Press release

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