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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Announcement for the 2014 Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop

    27 Jun 2014 | Teaching Materials

    Flyer announcement for the 2014 Composites Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Workshop to be held at Purdue University, August 5-7, 2014.The Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB is holding a hands-on workshop in composites design, analysis and manufacturing. Join us at Purdue University on...

  6. Autocatalytic Degree of Cure

    27 Jun 2014 | Tools

    Calculates degree of cure based on time-temperature profile and autocatalytic cure model with Arrhenius rate-dependence

  7. Autocatalytic Degree of Cure -- Time and Temperature Data Point Entry

    27 Jun 2014 | Tools

    Calculates degree of cure based on time-temperature profile and autocatalytic cure model with Arrhenius rate-dependence from time and temperature data points.

  8. CATIA Composites Braiding

    27 Jun 2014 | Animations

    A tool developed with BMW for strong structural Composites parts. Composites braiding is for high output cylindrical parts with minimal waste.

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

    23 Jul 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.

  10. Composite Stiffness Property Prediction

    10 Oct 2013 | 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...

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

    10 Oct 2013 | 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...

  12. DiBenedetto Equation: Tg and DOC

    23 Jul 2014 | Tools

    DiBenedetto Equation: Glass Transition Temperature Dependence on Degree of Cure

  13. Effective Lamina and Laminate Properties

    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

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

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

    10 Oct 2013 | Downloads

  15. Halpin-Tsai Micromechanics Model

    10 Oct 2013 | Tools

    Calculate homogenized lamina properties from fiber and matrix properties

  16. 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...

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

    10 Oct 2013 | 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

    10 Oct 2013 | Publications

  19. MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites

    10 Oct 2013 | 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

    10 Oct 2013 | Publications