Program Predicts Creep Lives of Ceramic Components

Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures/Creep (CARES/CREEP) is a computer program that predicts the creep lives of ceramic structural components. [CARES/CREEP should not be confused with the related program CARES/LIFE, which was described in "Program for Evaluation of Reliability of Ceramic Parts," NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 20, No. 3 (March 1996), page 28.] CARES/CREEP is integrated with the commercially available ANSYS finite-element code and is intended to be used, in conjunction with ANSYS, to design ceramic structural components of advanced turbine engines.