Sustainable Manufacturing of Composite Materials

21 May 2021 | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

The growing use of composite materials in aerospace, transportation, recreational products and renewable energy production manufacturing has created a critical need for low-cost sustainable manufacturing methods. The current methods of consolidation and cure are not compatible with the projected...

Rheology of Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Polymer Composites

26 Apr 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

The rheology of fiber–reinforced thermoplastic composites will be presented with specific focus on several topics studied over the past three decades. Interest in the elongational viscosity of collimated, discontinuous fiber systems was initiated by the introduction of impregnated,...

Practical Developments in Multiscale Modeling of Composites

07 Apr 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

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...

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...

Recent Developments in Computational Approaches to Model Laminated Composite Shells and Damage and Fracture in Solids

16 Feb 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

In this lecture, two different topics of considerable interest to composite materials and structural mechanics communities are discussed. The first topic deals with the development of locking-free shell finite elements with thickness stretch for the nonlinear analysis of isotropic and laminated...

Novel Powder Epoxy Composites for Thick-Section Structures

25 Jan 2021 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

This seminar discusses the ongoing work at The University of Edinburgh on the processing, design and testing of thicksection composites for industrial structures such as large wind and tidal turbine blades, via powder epoxy resin systems. Thick-section composite parts are difficult to manufacture...

Emerging Role of Process Models & Simulations in Composites Manufacturing

07 Dec 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

This talk will highlight the ever increasing benefits of process modeling in Composite Manufacturing processes. First, the use of science base approach of materials processing, which integrates material parameters with transport phenomena at various scales during manufacturing to create...

The Challenges of Determining the Strength of Composites

24 Nov 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

Why are there such large differences in reported strengths of composites? Some of the reasons are the definition of strength, material variability, poor test methods, and subtle variations in carrying out the tests. But there are other important factors that affect strength that are not...

Automating the Lay-up of Geometrically Complex Composite Structures Made from Preimpregnated Reinforcements: a Route to a Roadmap

04 Nov 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

A significant amount of research and industrial effort has been expended on the development of equipment such as automated fibre placement machines to lay-up prepregged reinforcements into structures of relatively simple geometry such as wing skins and spars, and fuselage structures. These...

Defect Coupling Predicting the Strength and Life of Fiberous Composite Laminates

16 Oct 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

After more than 30 years of careful experimental investigation and exhaustive development of discrete damage analysis methods including integrated computational mechanics methods, our community knows a great deal about how discrete defects such as matrix cracks and defect growth (e.g....

Global Composites Experts Webinar Series

12 Aug 2020 | Series | Contributor(s): Johnathan Goodsell

The webinars examine the history, present capabilities, and future of composites science and technology. The goal of the series is to accumulate the vast knowledge of composites that has been developed over the past 50 years and to make it available to the global composites community. Each...

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...

Multiscale analysis of multilayer printed circuit board using Mechanics of Structure Genome

23 Jan 2019 | Publications

The structure of Printed Circuit board (PCB) is very complicated because it consists of woven composites and custom defined conducting layers. To improve the reliability of PCB, it is critical to predict the constitutive relations accurately. This study by implementing Mechanics of Structure...

ANSYS Workbench SwiftComp GUI

03 Jan 2019 | Downloads

This resource contains the download of the release package of ANSYS Workbench SwiftComp GUI. Please be advised that what you download is the GUI only. You have to fill the form at http://analyswift.com/software-trial/ to request SwiftComp from AnalySwift LLC...

VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity

06 Jan 2017 | 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. 

Free Edge Stress Analysis of Laminated Structures with Arbitrary Cross Sections Using Mechanics of Structure Genome

12 Dec 2016 | Publications

This is the master thesis from Lingxuan Zhou advised by Prof. Yu. In this thesis, free-edge stress analysis of composite laminated structures with arbitrary cross sections is dealt with using mechanics of structure genome (MSG). A cross-sectional analysis specialized from MSG is...

Generalized Free-Edge Stress Analysis Using Mechanics of Structure Genome

22 Aug 2016 | Publications

This work reveals the potential of mechanics of structure genome (MSG) for the free-edge stress analysis of composite laminates. First, the cross-sectional analysis specialized from MSG is formulated for solving a generalized free-edge problem of composite laminates. Then, MSG and the companion...

ANSYS-SwiftComp GUI

19 May 2016 | Downloads

This resource contains the download of the release package of ANSYS-SwiftComp GUI. Please be advised that what you download is the GUI only. You have to fill the form at http://analyswift.com/software-trial/ to request SwiftComp from AnalySwift LLC for performing the...

ABAQUS-SwiftComp GUI

19 May 2016 | Downloads

This resource contains the download of the release package of ABAQUS-SwiftComp GUI.  Please be advised that what you download is the GUI only, you have to fill the form at http://analyswift.com/software-trial/ to request SwiftComp from AnalySwift LLC for performing the...

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.