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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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MSG-based Multiscale Modeling for Beams
05 Jul 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
Presentation given in Summer 2019 at Wuhan University of Technology.
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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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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.
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TexGen4SC Tutorial #1: Homogenization Analysis of Textile Composites with Arbitrary Inter-ply Shifts
03 Jan 2017 | 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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TexGen4SC
14 Feb 2014 | Tools
Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp
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2015 cdmHUB Workshop
27 Jun 2014 | Series | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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
14 Feb 2014 | 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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ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)
03 Aug 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
This resource contains the release package of ANSYS-VABS GUI.VABS code is NOT included. Manual and the source scripts for the interface can be found in the Supporting Documents.This GUI was developed based on ANSYS Release...
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HyperSizer for Composites: Insanely Fast Laminate Optimization
31 Mar 2015 | Tool Information | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
95% of users, without user manual, and without instruction, will be able to import their FEM and produce optimum composites laminates that satisfy all analyses to all load cases within the first 10 minutes. Your automatically updated model will have minimum weight and fully producible laminates...
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Skill of Using Surface Element in ANSYS
26 Mar 2015 | 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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2013 Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB Kickoff Workshop
04 Sep 2014 | Series | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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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HyperSizer Pro Software from Collier Research
20 Aug 2014 | Tool Information | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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...
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PostGEBT
15 Aug 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
PostGEBT is a post-processing code which can effectively visualize mass data generated by the nonlinear beam solver GEBT. PostGEBT reads and visualizes the results produced by GEBT for static, steady-state, transient dynamic, and eigenvalue analyses. More details can be found in the PostGEBT...
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Geometrically Exact Beam Theory
30 May 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
A General-Purpose Nonlinear Analysis Tool for Composite Beams Considering All Elastic Couplings
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Geometrically Exact Beam Theory
11 Jul 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT), is a general-purpose tool for nonlinear analysis of composite slender structures, meeting the design challenges associated with future engineering systems featuring highly-flexible slender structures made of composites. GEBT is based on the mixed...
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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