Material Kinetics is an engineering simulation software company, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Our software predicts when components will fail by simulating the microstructural physics that industry tools cannot model.
A software platform built on the forward edge of plasticity theory — Mesoscale Field Dislocation Mechanics (MFDM) — that does what existing tools cannot.
Mission-critical components fail as defects form and evolve inside the material at microscopic scales. Industry design tools carry no information about that internal structure or the physical mechanisms that drive failure, so the highest-consequence failures go unpredicted. Further testing does not close the gap.
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, except for ours.
Seeking design partners in energy, aerospace propulsion, and additive manufacturing.