cdmHUB - The Composites HUB

The structure of Printed Circuit board (PCB) is very complicated because it consists of woven composites and custom defined conducting layers. To improve the reliability of PCB, it is critical to predict the constitutive relations accurately. This study by implementing Mechanics of Structure...

PreVABS

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16 Nov 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

PreVABS is a pre-processing tool for VABS and SwiftComp. This tool is designed to reduce the workload of preparing input files of beam cross sections for VABS and SwiftComp, and to make the process automatic for the design and optimization purpose. Cross sections with general and...

Puck Failure Criteria

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31 Jul 2017 | Downloads

Composite materials have been established as competitive materials during the last few decades due to their high strength to l ow weight ratio among other advantages and are widely used in many industries. A recent study has found that the industrial usage of composite failure...

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...

VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity

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06 Jan 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

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.

TexGen4SC

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13 May 2013 | Tools

Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp

2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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13 May 2013 | Series

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

ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)

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03 Aug 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

This resource contains the release package of ANSYS-VABS GUI.VABS code is NOT included. Manual and the source scripts for the interface can be found in the Supporting Documents.This GUI was developed based on ANSYS Release...

ABAQUS-VABS GUI

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29 Jun 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

A Python script used to convert the input file generated by ABAQUS for VABS, a detailed step-by-step instruction using ABAQUS CAE to generate a simple beam section (composite anisotropic pipe) is also given. Python scripts for generating more complex sections such as real...

HyperSizer for Composites: Insanely Fast Laminate Optimization

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31 Mar 2015 | 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...

CDM Hub Introduction

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17 Mar 2015 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project