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Adaptive Multi-Scale & Multi-Fidelity Progressive Failure Analysis of Composites
14 Nov 2022
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...
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Practical Developments in Multiscale Modeling of Composites
07 Apr 2021
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...
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Constitutive modeling for time- and temperature-dependent behavior of composites
08 Jan 2020
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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MSC.Patran/Nastran-SwiftComp GUI
01 Apr 2019
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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MSC.Patran/Nastran-SwiftComp GUI
01 Apr 2019
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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PreVABS
16 Nov 2017
PreVABS is a pre-processing tool for VABS and SwiftComp. This tool is designed to reduce the workload of preparing input files of beam cross sections for VABS and SwiftComp, and to make the process automatic for the design and optimization purpose. Cross sections with general and...
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2016 cdmHUB ASC Workshop
01 Sep 2016 | Series
Join us at the American Society for Composites 31st Technical Conference (http://mech.utah.edu/ASC2016/) for a hands-on workshop, on September 18, from 7:00–9:00pm, on how to use cdmHUB.org for composites learning, teaching, and research in the cloud. With the mission to convene the...
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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...
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2015 Composites Simulation Workshop Agenda
05 Jan 2016 | Teaching Materials
2015 Composites Simulation Workshop Agenda
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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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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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Structure Genome: Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
29 Nov 2014 | Publications
A new concept, Structure Genome (SG), is proposed to fill the gap between materials genome and structural analysis. SG acts as the basic building block of the structure connecting materials to structures and the mechanics of SG governs the necessary information to link materials genome and...
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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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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...