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PreVABS
16 Nov 2017 | 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...
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State of the Art of Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions
14 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang
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Structure Genome: Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
06 Jan 2015
This presentation is given at 2015 AIAA SciTech conference. 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...
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SwiftComp: Right Results Right Away
13 May 2015
This presentation gives a brief review of SwiftComp which is a general-purpose multiscale constitutive modeling code. It can bridge microstructure with the final macroscopic structural model. It takes a FE mesh of Structure Genome, which is defined as the smallest mathematical building block of...
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VABS: Modeling Composite Beam-like Structures with 3D FEA Fidelity
06 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
This presentation was given at Altair Virtual ATCx Composites: https://atcxcomposites.virtual.altair.com/. Variational asymptotic beam section (VABS) is a unique technology continuously funded by the US Army since 1988 and it has become a tool of choice in the helicopter and wind turbine...
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VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity
06 Jan 2017 | 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.