2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB Kickoff Workshop

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.

2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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.

2015 cdmHUB Workshop

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.

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

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...

ABAQUS-VABS GUI

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...

Analysis of Slender Structures Using Mechanics of Structure Genome and Open Source Codes

18 Apr 2016 | Publications

This is the Master thesis from Xin Liu in Prof Yu’s research group. In this thesis, the Mechanics of Structure Genome (MSG) has be used to provide an alternative way to model composite beam-like structures. Basic concept of MSG is introduced as well as the idea of how to carry out...

ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)

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...

Composite Materials and Structures 1972-2012: Grand Challenges

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.

Composite Stiffness Property Prediction

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...

Computational evaluation of effective stress relaxation behavior of polymer composites

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...

Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

10 Oct 2013 | Tools

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

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

10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

10 Oct 2013 | Tools

Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

HyperSizer for Composites: Insanely Fast Laminate Optimization

28 May 2014 | 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

28 May 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...

iVABS

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...

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

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. 

Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement

18 Jul 2017 | Publications

MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites

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...

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

18 Jul 2017 | Publications