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New Developments in Platelet Composite Rheology
15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang
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New Developments in Platelet Composite Performance
15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang
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New Developments in Platelet Meso-scale Measurements
15 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang
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State of the Art of Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions
14 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Xuan Wang
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VABS: Modeling Composite Beam-like Structures with 3D FEA Fidelity
06 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
This presentation was given at Altair Virtual ATCx Composites: https://atcxcomposites.virtual.altair.com/. Variational asymptotic beam section (VABS) is a unique technology continuously funded by the US Army since 1988 and it has become a tool of choice in the helicopter and wind turbine...
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iVABS
19 Nov 2020 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
iVABS (namely integrated VABS), is a design framework for composite slender structures (also called composite beams) such as helicopter rotor blades, wind turbine blades, high aspect ratio wings, bridges, shafts, etc. This framework bundles PreVABS, VABS, GEBT, Dakota, along with msgpi for...
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PreVABS
16 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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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Composite Stiffness Property Prediction
07 Aug 2017
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...
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Finite element unit cell model based on ABAQUS for fiber reinforced composites
26 Jul 2017
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Micromechanical investigations of polymer matrix composites with shape memory alloy reinforcement
18 Jul 2017
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Numerical characterization of effective fully coupled thermo-electro-magneto-viscoelastic-plastic response of smart composites
18 Jul 2017
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Computational evaluation of effective stress relaxation behavior of polymer composites
11 Jul 2017
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...
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MUL2-UC Beam modeling of periodically heterogeneous composites
13 Jun 2017
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...
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VABS: Powering Simple Beam Elements with Detailed 3D FEA Fidelity
06 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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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Orthotropic Stress Concentration Factor
25 Sep 2014 | Tools
Calculates the stress concentration factor for a circular hole in an infinite orthotropic plate
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Mechanics of Structure Genome:Fill the Gap between Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
10 Oct 2013 | 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.
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2015 cdmHUB Workshop
23 Jul 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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2015 cdmHUB Workshop
10 Oct 2013 | 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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Presentation of Micromechanics Simulation Challenge Level I Initial Results
10 Oct 2013 | Downloads
The attached slides summarize the Micromechanics Simulation Challenge Level I Initial Results in a presentation format. The complete report can be found at https://cdmhub.org/resources/948, and all the files supporting the results can be found...
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ANSYS-VABS Graphic User Interface (GUI)
03 Aug 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang
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...