Asimple, nonstandardized material test specimen,which fails along one of two different likely crack paths, is considered herein.The\nresult of deviations in geometry on the order of tenths of a millimeter, this ambiguity in crack pathmotivates the consideration of asmanufactured\ncomponent geometry in the design, assessment, and certification of structural systems.Herein, finite elementmodels\nof as-manufactured specimens are generated and subsequently analyzed to resolve the crack-path ambiguity.The consequence and\nbenefit of such a ââ?¬Å?personalizedââ?¬Â methodology is the prediction of a crack path for each specimen based on its as-manufactured\ngeometry, rather than a distribution of possible specimen geometries or nominal geometry. The consideration of as-manufactured\ncharacteristics is central to the Digital Twin concept. Therefore, this work is also intended to motivate its development.
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