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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.
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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.
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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.
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Constitutive modeling for time- and temperature-dependent behavior of composites
08 Jan 2020 | Publications
Structural integrity, durability, and thermal stability represent critical areas for adequately modeling the behavior of composite materials. Polymeric matrices are prone to have time-dependent behavior very sensitive to changes in temperature that influence the effective properties of the...
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Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Calculate effective lamina and laminate properties from phase properties and layup.
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Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties
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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...
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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...
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Orthotropic Stress Concentration Factor
25 Sep 2014 | Tools
Calculates the stress concentration factor for a circular hole in an infinite orthotropic plate
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Plane-Stress Compliance Transform
25 Sep 2014 | Tools
Transforms 2D compliance terms by rotation about the 3-axis
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Skill of Using Surface Element in ANSYS
14 Feb 2014 | 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...
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TexGen4SC
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp
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TexGen4SC Tutorial #1: Homogenization Analysis of Textile Composites with Arbitrary Inter-ply Shifts
14 Feb 2014 | Downloads
This tutorial shows how to use TexGen4SC to perform homogenization analysis of textile composites with arbitrary inter-ply shifts. A companion video is available on YouTube. TexGen4SC can be launched directly from https://cdmhub.org/tools/texgen4sc. A python script for the...
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The Mission, Vision and Programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB
25 Sep 2014 | Teaching Materials
The presentation outlines the mission, vision and programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB as of October 2014.
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VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity
04 Jun 2014 | Downloads
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.