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Rheology of Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Polymer Composites
26 Apr 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
The rheology of fiber–reinforced thermoplastic composites will be presented with specific focus on several topics studied over the past three decades. Interest in the elongational viscosity of collimated, discontinuous fiber systems was initiated by the introduction of impregnated,...
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Practical Developments in Multiscale Modeling of Composites
07 Apr 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
Validated models (be they data driven or physics based) can accelerate the design, certification, and ultimate deployment of novel materials and structures by allowing rapid iteration and virtual experimentation while at the same time minimizing the need for expensive and time consuming physical...
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Recent Developments in Computational Approaches to Model Laminated Composite Shells and Damage and Fracture in Solids
16 Feb 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
In this lecture, two different topics of considerable interest to composite materials and structural mechanics communities are discussed. The first topic deals with the development of locking-free shell finite elements with thickness stretch for the nonlinear analysis of isotropic and laminated...
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Novel Powder Epoxy Composites for Thick-Section Structures
25 Jan 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
This seminar discusses the ongoing work at The University of Edinburgh on the processing, design and testing of thicksection composites for industrial structures such as large wind and tidal turbine blades, via powder epoxy resin systems. Thick-section composite parts are difficult to manufacture...
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Emerging Role of Process Models & Simulations in Composites Manufacturing
07 Dec 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
This talk will highlight the ever increasing benefits of process modeling in Composite Manufacturing processes. First, the use of science base approach of materials processing, which integrates material parameters with transport phenomena at various scales during manufacturing to create...
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The Challenges of Determining the Strength of Composites
24 Nov 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
Why are there such large differences in reported strengths of composites? Some of the reasons are the definition of strength, material variability, poor test methods, and subtle variations in carrying out the tests. But there are other important factors that affect strength that are not...
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Automating the Lay-up of Geometrically Complex Composite Structures Made from Preimpregnated Reinforcements: a Route to a Roadmap
04 Nov 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
A significant amount of research and industrial effort has been expended on the development of equipment such as automated fibre placement machines to lay-up prepregged reinforcements into structures of relatively simple geometry such as wing skins and spars, and fuselage structures. These...
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Defect Coupling Predicting the Strength and Life of Fiberous Composite Laminates
16 Oct 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
After more than 30 years of careful experimental investigation and exhaustive development of discrete damage analysis methods including integrated computational mechanics methods, our community knows a great deal about how discrete defects such as matrix cracks and defect growth (e.g....
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Global Composites Experts Webinar Series
12 Aug 2020 | Series | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
The webinars examine the history, present capabilities, and future of composites science and technology. The goal of the series is to accumulate the vast knowledge of composites that has been developed over the past 50 years and to make it available to the global composites community. Each...
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Constitutive modeling for time- and temperature-dependent behavior of composites
08 Jan 2020 | Publications
Structural integrity, durability, and thermal stability represent critical areas for adequately modeling the behavior of composite materials. Polymeric matrices are prone to have time-dependent behavior very sensitive to changes in temperature that influence the effective properties of the...
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MSC.Patran/Nastran-SwiftComp GUI
01 Apr 2019 | Downloads
A graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed to integrate SwiftComp into MSC.Patran/Nastran for constitutive modeling and providing the automated conversion of the MSG plate and beam stiffness matrix into MSC.Nastran shell and beam element properties and materials. In order to reduce...
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VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity
06 Jan 2017 | Downloads
This presentation gives a brief introduction to VABS, a general-purpose cross-sectional analysis, which can power conventional, simple beam elements with detailed 3D FEA fidelity.
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2016 cdmHUB ASC Workshop
01 Sep 2016 | Series
Join us at the American Society for Composites 31st Technical Conference (http://mech.utah.edu/ASC2016/) for a hands-on workshop, on September 18, from 7:00–9:00pm, on how to use cdmHUB.org for composites learning, teaching, and research in the cloud. With the mission to convene the...
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2015 Composites Simulation Workshop Agenda
05 Jan 2016 | Teaching Materials
2015 Composites Simulation Workshop Agenda
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2015 cdmHUB Workshop
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.
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NAFEMS Invitation to Tender: How to Obtain Material Properties for Structural Analysis of Composites
13 Feb 2015 | White Papers/Research Documents
The NAFEMS Composites Working Group wishes to commission a new document with the suggested title "How to Obtain Material Properties for Structural Analysis of Composites". The book will be a companion volume to the existing NAFEMS publications "An introduction to the use of material models in...
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2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB Kickoff Workshop
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.
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Announcement for the 2014 Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop
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...