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.

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 Unified Theory for Constitutive Modeling of Composites

18 Apr 2016 | Publications

A unified theory for multiscale constitutive modeling of composites is developed using the concept of structure genomes. Generalized from the concept of the representative volume element, a structure genome is defined as the smallest mathematical building block of a structure. Structure...

Adaptive Multi-Scale & Multi-Fidelity Progressive Failure Analysis of Composites

14 Nov 2022 | Online Presentations

Although high-fidelity modeling of progressive damage has advanced our understanding of failure mechanisms in fibre-reinforced composites, such techniques are currently still too computationally intensive for direct application to composite structures. The multi-scale nature of damage in...

ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)

03 Aug 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

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.

DiBenedetto Equation: Tg and DOC

23 Jul 2014 | Tools

DiBenedetto Equation: Glass Transition Temperature Dependence on Degree of Cure

Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

14 Feb 2014 | Tools

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

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory

11 Jul 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT), is a general-purpose tool for nonlinear analysis of composite slender structures, meeting the design challenges associated with future engineering systems featuring highly-flexible slender structures made of composites. GEBT is based on the mixed...

Geometrically Exact Beam Theory

30 May 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

A General-Purpose Nonlinear Analysis Tool for Composite Beams Considering All Elastic Couplings

Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

14 Feb 2014 | Tools

Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

Injection Overmolding Manufacturing Process Simulation

23 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations

Injection over-molding or hybrid molding is a high-rate composites manufacturing process for fabrication of structural components with complex geometries.  The structural backbone is provided by a continuous-fiber woven prepreg while the geometric complexity is realized via injection...

MSC.Patran/Nastran-SwiftComp GUI

01 Apr 2019 | Downloads

A graphical user interface (GUI) has been developed to integrate SwiftComp into MSC.Patran/Nastran for constitutive modeling and providing the automated conversion of the MSG plate and beam stiffness matrix into MSC.Nastran shell and beam element properties and materials. In order to reduce...

MSG-based Multiscale Modeling for Beams

05 Jul 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Presentation given in Summer 2019 at Wuhan University of Technology. 

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...

PostGEBT

15 Aug 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

PostGEBT is a post-processing code which can effectively visualize mass data generated by the nonlinear beam solver GEBT. PostGEBT reads and visualizes the results produced by GEBT for static, steady-state, transient dynamic, and eigenvalue analyses. More details can be found in the PostGEBT...

Practical Developments in Multiscale Modeling of Composites

07 Apr 2021 | Online Presentations

Validated models (be they data driven or physics based) can accelerate the design, certification, and ultimate deployment of novel materials and structures by allowing rapid iteration and virtual experimentation while at the same time minimizing the need for expensive and time consuming physical...

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...