Episode 55: Fracture Control with NASGRO®

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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NASGRO® fracture control software analyzes spacecraft, aircraft, structures and more for fractures and fatigue, wear and tear that could pose a risk if not repaired. With data that includes measurements and material composition, the software calculates how a crack could grow and become catastrophic. NASGRO was initially developed to support NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, but is now used by companies around the world to avert danger. Last month, the Space Foundation inducted NASGRO and its developers into the Space Technology Hall of Fame, which honors groundbreaking technologies that began as space programs and have since been adapted to improve the quality of life for all of humanity. Listen now as SwRI NASGRO developers and Hall of Fame inductees Dr. Craig McClung and Joe Cardinal discuss the world-changing software’s capabilities and that shining moment of the behind-the-scenes technology taking the spotlight.

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0:00.0	A world-renowned software and its SWRI developers are in the spotlight with a recent induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
0:09.1	It's a software originally made for spacecraft that now extends to aircraft and structures, keeping the public safe.
0:15.7	All about this Hall of Fame technology and its many uses next on this episode of Technology Today.
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0:56.0	Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia. We're celebrating the recent induction
1:01.1	of the NASGRO fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth software into the Space Technology
1:07.1	Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals, organizations, and companies
1:12.0	that effectively adapt space technologies for other uses that improve the quality of life for
1:18.5	all humanity. The software was originally developed by NASA for space programs. Now NASGRO is the
1:25.4	most widely used fracture control software in the world.
1:30.0	Along with the software, SWRI NASGRO developers and engineers, Dr. Craig McClung, and Joe Cardinal were also inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1:38.5	They join us now.
1:39.6	A big congratulations on your induction, and thank you both for being here, Craig and Joe.
1:45.5	Thank you for having us.
1:51.8	Pleasure to be here. All right. So uses for NASGRO software continue to expand beyond spacecraft. It's now used for aircraft, rotorcraft, gas turbine engines, and other structural components.
1:59.0	Southwest Research Institute and NASA have been jointly developing
2:02.0	NASGRO since 2001. It's actually a suite of different computer programs for different types of
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