Efficiently gain accurate and repeatable results with fracture testing software for use on the modular and easy-to-use MTS TestSuite™ platform.

Solutions are available in six separate modules for fatigue crack growth and fracture toughness testing. You can incorporate clip gage, potential drop and crack gage measurements with these modular additions to MTS TestSuite Multipurpose Software.

Best of all, the Virtual Specimen feature included in all MTS TestSuite fatigue and fracture testing modules allows you to see how your test article will perform in a test without actually having to break a specimen. The modules include Virtual Specimens for standard specimen geometries and tests. You define the parameters for stiffness, degradation, initial crack length, crack growth rate, transition from elastic to plastic deformation, yield load and ultimate load that determine the behavior of the Virtual Specimen.

Then, you conduct a virtual test to receive physically meaningful feedback of specimen behavior without damaging a real specimen. Ideal for demonstrations, training and test design verification.