Open-source tool facilitates fracture-surface analysis in materials science, indicating broader research applicability.
Fracture-surface analysis provides quantitative insight into crack-propagation sequences and failure mechanisms, yet accessible and reproducible software for the FRASTA approach has remained limited. FRASTA-toolbox is an open-source application for importing, preprocessing, and analyzing three-dimensional fracture-surface scan data. It provides an implementation of the FRASTA workflow, including grid interpolation, masking, alignment, cross-sectional profile analysis, and interactive two- and three-dimensional visualization based on PyQt5 and pyqtgraph. The software supports reproducible fracture-surface analysis and is applicable to research workflows in materials science, tribology, biomedical engineering, and digital forensics.
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