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...

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...

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

23 Jan 2019

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...

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

23 Jan 2019

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

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...

VUMAT of a Generalized Standard Continuum Damage Model

13 Apr 2018 | Downloads

Based on a recently developed generalized standard continuum damage model (CDM), this VUMAT user subroutine provides a rigorous and robust framework for implementing various damage behavior into 2D or 3D solid elements in a finite element analysis (FEA). It is designed to be used with...

Composite Stiffness Property Prediction

07 Aug 2017 | 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...

Woven fabrics UMAT- a coupled material model

02 Aug 2017 | Downloads

One of the advantages of woven fabrics over unidirectional prepregs is their superior formability thanks to the large shear deformation capability. There exists, however, a limit on the shear deformation of woven fabrics, namely the wrinkling. Applying tension to delay wrinkling during forming...

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...

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

26 Jul 2017 | Downloads

Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement

18 Jul 2017 | Publications

Numerical characterization of effective fully coupled thermo-electro-magneto-viscoelastic-plastic response of smart composites

18 Jul 2017 | Publications

Forming simulation using PAM-FORM, AniForm, LS-DYNA, and ABAQUS

18 Jul 2017 | Animations

Computational evaluation of effective stress relaxation behavior of polymer composites

11 Jul 2017 | 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...

Abaqus plugins for Nonlinear Acoustics

06 Jul 2017 | Downloads

This paper introduces generalized tools in the form of plugins for a commonly used commercial finite element package Abaqus/Standard to model the nonlinear acoustic methods for detection of delamination damage in composite laminates. The nonlinear acoustic methods typically involve exciting a...

MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites

13 Jun 2017 | 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...

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...

TexGen4SC

13 May 2013 | Tools

Modeling of woven fabric composites generated by TexGen using SwiftComp

Generalized Free-Edge Stress Analysis Using Mechanics of Structure Genome

28 May 2014 | 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

28 May 2014 | 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...