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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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Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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Skill of Using Surface Element in ANSYS
26 Mar 2015 | Downloads
Dear All, For those ANSYS users, please check the attached skill of using surface element, “Surface_Effect_Elements.pdf”, to apply the surface tangent traction. It works well for homogenization simulations, and also for some beams structure validations. This attached zip file also...
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Structural Self-sensing Based on Measuring the Resistance, Capacitance or Inductance of the Structural <aterial, Without Sensor Incorporation
06 Nov 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
Structural self-sensing refers to a structural material sensing itself without sensor incorporation. Compared to sensor incorporation, advantages include low cost, high durability, large sensing volume and the mechanical properties being not degraded. The self-sensing ability makes the structural...
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Sustainable Manufacturing of Composite Materials
21 May 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
The growing use of composite materials in aerospace, transportation, recreational products and renewable energy production manufacturing has created a critical need for low-cost sustainable manufacturing methods. The current methods of consolidation and cure are not compatible with the projected...
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TexGen4SC
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp
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TexGen4SC Tutorial #1: Homogenization Analysis of Textile Composites with Arbitrary Inter-ply Shifts
14 Feb 2014 | Downloads
This tutorial shows how to use TexGen4SC to perform homogenization analysis of textile composites with arbitrary inter-ply shifts. A companion video is available on YouTube. TexGen4SC can be launched directly from https://cdmhub.org/tools/texgen4sc. A python script for the...
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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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The Story of Permeability in Liquid Composite Molding (LCM): How to Devise and Validate Process Simulation Software?
13 Apr 2022 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
Permeability characterizes the capability of establishing a fluid flow through a porous medium. This lecture aims to present a summary on the state-of-the-art knowledge on permeability in LCM together with a discussion on open questions. The Story of Permeability in Liquid Composite Molding (LCM)...
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US-COMP: Next Generation of Composites Materials for Crewed Deep Space Missions
15 Dec 2023 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell
Current state-of-the-art composite materials are not light/strong enough for crewed missions to Mars and beyond. Structural components of deep space vehicles require lighter/stronger materials for fuel efficiency. The NASA Space Technologies Research Institute (STRI) for Ultra-Strong Composites...
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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.