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Free Edge Elasticity Solution
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.
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Free-Edge Elasticity Solution: Tool Taxonomy and Evaluation
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...
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Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model
13 May 2013 | Tools
Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties
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Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model
10 Oct 2013 | Tools
Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties
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HyperSizer for Composites: Insanely Fast Laminate Optimization
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...
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HyperSizer Pro Software from Collier Research
23 Jul 2014 | Tool Information
HyperSizer® is Design, Analysis, and Optimization Software for Composite and Metallic Structures HyperSizer is used throughout the design process--including certification--to quantify all critical failure modes, reduce structural weight, and sequence composite laminates for fabrication to...
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Keith Kedward and Composites Design (Recorded Talk)
23 Jul 2014 | Teaching Materials
Professor Byron Pipes speaks at the 2014 ASC Conference at UCSD in tribute to Keith Kedward on the subject of Composites Design.
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Keith Kedward and Composites Design (Slides)
23 Jul 2014 | Teaching Materials
Professor Byron Pipes' slides from the 2014 ASC meeting at UCSD discussing Keith Kedward and Composites Design
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Mechanics of Structure Genome:Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
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.
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Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement
10 Oct 2013 | Publications
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MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites
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...
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Multiscale analysis of multilayer printed circuit board using Mechanics of Structure Genome
23 Jan 2019 | Publications
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...
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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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Numerical characterization of effective fully coupled thermo-electro-magneto-viscoelastic-plastic response of smart composites
18 Jul 2017 | Publications
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Presentation of Micromechanics Simulation Challenge Level I Initial Results
04 Aug 2015 | Downloads
The attached slides summarize the Micromechanics Simulation Challenge Level I Initial Results in a presentation format. The complete report can be found at https://cdmhub.org/resources/948, and all the files supporting the results can be found...
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Puck Failure Criteria
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...
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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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Structure Genome: Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
29 Nov 2014 | Publications
A new concept, Structure Genome (SG), is proposed to fill the gap between materials genome and structural analysis. SG acts as the basic building block of the structure connecting materials to structures and the mechanics of SG governs the necessary information to link materials genome and...
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TexGen4SC
13 May 2013 | Tools
Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp
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The Mission, Vision and Programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB
13 May 2013 | Teaching Materials
The presentation outlines the mission, vision and programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB as of October 2014.