Material Kinetics’s software predicts when metal components will fail by simulating the microstructural physics that drives failure, something current tools in industry cannot model.
In turbine disks, nuclear components, and chip interconnects, failure under complex cyclic and thermal loading originates at the mesoscale — the evolution of dislocation structures inside crystalline materials. Conventional FEA tools treat this physics empirically: models calibrated to past data become non-predictive on new alloys, new manufacturing processes, and unseen load histories.
A simulation platform built on Mesoscale Field Dislocation Mechanics (MFDM) — deployed alongside existing FEA workflows to evaluate what they cannot:
MFDM is a physical theory of dislocation-mediated plasticity — built on 20+ years of foundational work from Prof. Amit Acharya’s lab at Carnegie Mellon — implemented in a production-grade, MPI-parallel computational platform. No commercial tool models this physics.
Currently pursuing SBIR/STTR and non-dilutive funding through DOD and DOE pathways. Seeking design partners in aerospace and energy.