Fiber Orientation Prediction for Discontinuous Fiber Composites: Fundamentals and Future Trends

08 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

When composite materials with discontinuous fibers are processed into their final shape, any flow alters the fiber orientation pattern and affects the properties of the final composite. It is now standard practice to predict fiber orientation patterns and the resulting mechanical properties in...

Fiber-Optic-Based In-Process Monitoring of CFRP Structures for Material Quality Assurance

27 Jan 2022 | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Although carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have been used extensively in many aerospace structures such as Boeing 787 and Airbus 350, low-cost and high-rate production CFRP are highly demanded for next-generation single-aisle commercial aircraft. Competition has been increasing...

Fibrous Shell Approach and 3D Second Gradient Modeling for Textile Composite Draping

10 Dec 2021 | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Composite manufacturing processes are often complex and process simulation is a way to avoid costly trial-anderror development. Simulations of composites textile reinforcements draping use shell finite elements for which the bending behavior is very particular. The fibrous composition of the...

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory

11 Jul 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT), is a general-purpose tool for nonlinear analysis of composite slender structures, meeting the design challenges associated with future engineering systems featuring highly-flexible slender structures made of composites. GEBT is based on the mixed...

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory

30 May 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

A General-Purpose Nonlinear Analysis Tool for Composite Beams Considering All Elastic Couplings

Gillespie CCM

29 Jun 2024 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Presentation at the May 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB workshop

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...

Greg Schoeppner CDM Hub

15 Feb 2019 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Hubert McGill

15 Feb 2019 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Presentation at the May 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB workshop

Imparting Robustness to Out-of-Autoclave Prepregs

09 Mar 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Autoclaves have long been used to ensure robustness in the production of composite parts. However, they present a production bottleneck, as well as high capital and recurring costs. Out-of-autoclave prepregs were introduced to allow oven curing and thereby address some of these issues. These OoA...

Jack Gillespie CDM Hub

15 Feb 2019 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Jacob Fish Columbia CDM Hub

15 Feb 2019 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Jerry Young Boeing CDM Hub

15 Feb 2019 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

M3 – A Sustainable Approach to Vehicle Light-weighting with Composites: Methods – Materials – Manufacturing

07 Apr 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

The presentation will introduce our house of competence, KIT and Fraunhofer ICT and introduce our MMM approach to engineered lightweight solutions for specific industries. This comprises of the development of virtual process chains, material and manufacturing solutions for relevant technologies...

Master Laminates to Simplify Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of Composites

12 Dec 2022 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Composite materials and structures have traditionally been viewed as more complicated than metals. With master stiffness and failure envelopes composites are as simple as metals. Stiffness of laminates can be split into two part: one for trace that represents the total stiffness capacity; one for...

MSG-based Multiscale Modeling for Beams

05 Jul 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Presentation given in Summer 2019 at Wuhan University of Technology. 

Multiscale Modeling of Damage Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites From Micro- to Macroscale: The (Virtual) Reality and Challenges Ahead

13 May 2022 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Multi-scale modelling of composites is a very active topic in composites science. This is illustrated by the numerous sessions in the recent European and International Conferences on Composite Materials, but also by the fast developments in multi-scale modelling software tools, developed by large...

Nanohub and the HUBzero Platform

16 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SME Project

Dr. Michael McLennan describes the nanoHUB and HUBzero platform at the May 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB workshop.

New Developments in Platelet Composite Performance

15 Feb 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang

New Developments in Platelet Composite Rheology

15 Feb 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang