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  1. 2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB Kickoff Workshop

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    04 Sep 2014 | Series

    The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB held a kick-off workshop at Purdue University on May 29-30, 2013 with over 100 attendees from industry, academia and government.  Select presentations from the workshop are included in this series.

  2. 2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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    05 Jan 2016 | Series

    Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop held at Purdue University on November 3-5, 2015.  Both lectures slides and lecture videos are presented.

  3. 2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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    05 Jan 2016 | Series

    Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop held at Purdue University on November 3-5, 2015.  Both lectures slides and lecture videos are presented.

  4. A Critical Assessment of Computer Tools for Calculating Composites Wind Turbine Blade Properties

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    16 Mar 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

    The purpose of this paper is to critically assess several computer tools for calculating the inertial and structural properties of wind turbine blades. The theoretical foundation of each tool is briefly summarized, and the advantages and disadvantages of each tool are pointed out. Several...

  5. ABAQUS-VABS GUI

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    29 Jun 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

    A Python script used to convert the input file generated by ABAQUS for VABS, a detailed step-by-step instruction using ABAQUS CAE to generate a simple beam section (composite anisotropic pipe)  is also given. Python scripts for generating more complex sections such as real...

  6. ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)

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    03 Aug 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

    This resource contains the release package of ANSYS-VABS GUI.VABS code is NOT included. Manual and the source scripts for the interface can be found in the Supporting Documents.This GUI was developed based on ANSYS Release...

  7. Composite Materials and Structures 1972-2012: Grand Challenges

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    19 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials

    Professor R. Byron Pipes presents the Grand Challenges for Composite Materials for the next 40 years at the American Society of Composites Conference in Arlington, TX on October 2, 2012.

  8. Composite Stiffness Property Prediction

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    07 Aug 2017 | Downloads

    Micromechanical models for the composite axial tensile, transverse tensile, and axial shear are combined into one tool with the objective of comparing their effectiveness as property prediction methods.  Rule of mixtures models (ROM) and the composite cylinder model (CCM) results for...

  9. Computational evaluation of effective stress relaxation behavior of polymer composites

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    11 Jul 2017 | Publications

    This paper presents a micromechanics model to characterize the effective stress relaxationstiffness of polymer composites. The linear viscoelastic behavior of polymer material wasmodeled by hereditary integral. The proposed model was established based on thevariational asymptotic method for unit...

  10. Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

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    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

    Calculate effective lamina and laminate properties from phase properties and layup.

  11. Finite element unit cell model based on ABAQUS for fiber reinforced composites

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    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

  12. Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

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    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

    Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

  13. HyperSizer Pro Software from Collier Research

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    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...

  14. iVABS

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    19 Nov 2020 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

    iVABS (namely integrated VABS), is a design framework for composite slender structures (also called composite beams) such as helicopter rotor blades, wind turbine blades, high aspect ratio wings, bridges, shafts, etc. This framework bundles PreVABS, VABS, GEBT, Dakota, along with msgpi for...

  15. Keith Kedward and Composites Design (Recorded Talk)

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    22 Sep 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.

  16. Keith Kedward and Composites Design (Slides)

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    22 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials

    Professor Byron Pipes' slides from the 2014 ASC meeting at UCSD discussing Keith Kedward and Composites Design

  17. Mechanics of Structure Genome: Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis

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    18 May 2016 | 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. 

  18. Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement

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    18 Jul 2017 | Publications

  19. MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites

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    13 Jun 2017 | 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...

  20. Numerical characterization of effective fully coupled thermo-electro-magneto-viscoelastic-plastic response of smart composites

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    18 Jul 2017 | Publications