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...

Puck Failure Criteria

31 Jul 2017 | Downloads

Composite materials have been established as competitive materials during the last few decades due to their high strength to l ow weight ratio among other advantages and are widely used in many industries. A recent study has found that the industrial usage of composite failure...

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...

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...

The Mission, Vision and Programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB

08 Oct 2014 | Teaching Materials

The presentation outlines the mission, vision and programs of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB as of October 2014.

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.

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.

HyperSizer Pro Software from Collier Research

20 Aug 2014 | Tool Information

HyperSizer® is Design, Analysis, and Optimization Software for Composite and Metallic Structures HyperSizer is used throughout the design process--including certification--to quantify all critical failure modes, reduce structural weight, and sequence composite laminates for fabrication to...

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...