Free-Edge Elasticity Solution: Tool Taxonomy and Evaluation

22 May 2014 | 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...

Gillespie CCM

15 Feb 2019 | 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

Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

22 May 2013 | Tools

Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

13 May 2013 | Tools

Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

Hubert McGill

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

Presentation at the May 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB workshop

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...

HyperSizer Pro Software from Collier Research

22 May 2013 | 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...

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...

Interlaminar Stresses in Symmetric Angle-Ply Laminates Subjected to Anticlastic Bending Deformation

04 Jun 2014 | Tool Information

The aim of the present work is to develop a solution for the interlaminar stress field in a symmetric and balanced,  angle-ply laminate subjected to anticlastic bending deformation.  Further, this class of problems is considered in order to elucidate the behavior of angle-ply laminates...

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...

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...

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.

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...