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  1. 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB Kickoff Workshop

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    04 Sep 2014 | Series

    The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB held a kick-off workshop at Purdue University on May 29-30, 2013 with over 100 attendees from industry, academia and government.  Select presentations from the workshop are included in this series.

  2. 2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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    05 Jan 2016 | Series

    Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop held at Purdue University on November 3-5, 2015.  Both lectures slides and lecture videos are presented.

  3. 2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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    05 Jan 2016 | Series

    Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop held at Purdue University on November 3-5, 2015.  Both lectures slides and lecture videos are presented.

  4. Abaqus plugins for Nonlinear Acoustics

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    06 Jul 2017 | Downloads

    This paper introduces generalized tools in the form of plugins for a commonly used commercial finite element package Abaqus/Standard to model the nonlinear acoustic methods for detection of delamination damage in composite laminates. The nonlinear acoustic methods typically involve exciting a...

  5. Announcement for the 2014 Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop

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    27 Jun 2014 | Teaching Materials

    Flyer announcement for the 2014 Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop to be held at Purdue University, August 5-7, 2014.The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB is holding a hands-on workshop in composites design, analysis and manufacturing. Join us at Purdue University on...

  6. CATIA Composites Braiding

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    09 Mar 2015 | Animations

    A tool developed with BMW for strong structural Composites parts. Composites braiding is for high output cylindrical parts with minimal waste.

  7. Classical Laminate Plate Theory

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    13 May 2013 | Tools

    Prediction of stresses and strains in a laminated plate of infinite in-plane dimensions. Allows for application of thermal and edge loads.

  8. Composite Stiffness Property Prediction

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    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

    Micromechanical models for the composite axial tensile, transverse tensile, and axial shear are combined into one tool with the objective of comparing their effectiveness as property prediction methods.  Rule of mixtures models (ROM) and the composite cylinder model (CCM) results for...

  9. Computational evaluation of effective stress relaxation behavior of polymer composites

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    10 Oct 2013 | Publications

    This paper presents a micromechanics model to characterize the effective stress relaxationstiffness of polymer composites. The linear viscoelastic behavior of polymer material wasmodeled by hereditary integral. The proposed model was established based on thevariational asymptotic method for unit...

  10. Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

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    13 May 2013 | Tools

    Calculate effective lamina and laminate properties from phase properties and layup.

  11. Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

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    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

    Calculate effective lamina and laminate properties from phase properties and layup.

  12. Finite element unit cell model based on ABAQUS for fiber reinforced composites

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    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

  13. Free Edge Elasticity Solution

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    13 May 2013 | Tools

    Simulate stress, strain and displacements in an composite angle-ply laminate subjected to uniform axial extension, anticlastic curvature and thermoelastic deformation.

  14. Free-Edge Elasticity Solution: Tool Taxonomy and Evaluation

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    13 May 2013 | White Papers/Research Documents

    A review of the free-edge elasticity solution tool, including tool taxonomy and evaluation.  An overview of the solution development is provided, followed by numerous examples of tool use and evaluation.  The document concludes with an evaluation of the tool maturity level.  The...

  15. Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

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    13 May 2013 | Tools

    Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

  16. Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

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    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

    Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

  17. HyperSizer for Composites: Insanely Fast Laminate Optimization

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    13 May 2013 | Tool Information

    95% of users, without user manual, and without instruction, will be able to import their FEM and produce optimum composites laminates that satisfy all analyses to all load cases within the first 10 minutes. Your automatically updated model will have minimum weight and fully producible laminates...

  18. Mechanics of Structure Genome: Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis

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    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

    This is the presentation given as a Purdue Solid Mechanics Seminar on 5/18/2016. It summarizes the most recent devleopments up to the time of presentation. 

  19. Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement

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    10 Oct 2013 | Publications

  20. MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites

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    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

    The micromechanics code MUL2-UC is developed to work as an efficient and high-fidelity tool for the computation of the effective stiffness matrix and the recovering of the local fields of periodically heterogeneous composite structures. The main novelty is that higher-order beam theories are...