AlphaSTAR Corporation offers innovative physics-based simulation software technologies for the analysis of additive manufacturing, material modeling, and advanced composite structures in the aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy industries around the world. Our tools, which offer unique capabilities in fatigue, durability, and damage tolerance, will support engineers throughout the design cycle, from experimental testing to final product manufacturing. AlphaSTAR's team is composed of materials scientists, educators, and industry professionals who work together to leverage over 30 years of subject matter expertise in the testing, simulation, and computational analysis of advanced materials and structures.

MCQ (Material Characterization & Qualification) is a material modeling toolkit that provides engineers with advanced analytical tools to characterize and qualify material properties for input into finite element analysis. Starting from the results of standard ASTM tests, such as fiber volume, density, resin content, and void volume, MCQ reverse engineers the in-situ component properties of the fibers and matrix, while taking into account manufacturing anomalies, the effect of defects, complex architectures, environmental effects, and scatter. MCQ then reconstructs the laminate (test coupon) and calibrates the effective properties against the tests using standard and user-defined failure criteria.

GENOA is a durability and damage tolerance, progressive failure, and reliability software that provides engineers with predictive computational technology to characterize and qualify advanced composites and structures. Through GENOA's true De-Homogenized Multiscale Progressive Failure Analysis, engineers can assess failures at macro, micro, and nano levels for advanced materials and composite structures subjected to static, fatigue, impact, and environmental loads. The software, which uses a closed-form, homogenized, analytical methodology, is integrated with building block strategies that result in accurate failure assessment and test reduction. GENOA's ability to assess damage, initiation, and growth, integrate damage and fracture mechanics, and determine damage contribution percentage makes it a unique tool for advanced structural design.

GENOA 3DP SIMULATION is a design tool and software suite that simulates the 3D printing process to accurately predict the net shape, residual stress, deformation, damage initiation, and propagation associated with final-stage 3D printed parts. Advanced Multiscale Progressive Failure (global/local) modeling and analysis methods scale manufacturing anomalies and other irregularities and inefficiencies from micro to macro scales. More importantly, GENOA 3DP Simulation provides the end-user with the ability to generate a structural mesh, analyze, and optimize the structure to reduce weight, reduce scrap rate, improve performance, and meet the specification.