Finite Element Analysis of Composite Laminates

Extend the capabilities of your existing software. Whether you're using CAD (such as CATIA or Pro-E), a finite element modeler (such as PATRAN or FEMAP), or FEA (such as NASTRAN or Abaqus), achieving a realistic, fully-optimized and manufactureable design requires virtually endless and costly hours of manual calculations, offline spreadsheets, model re-meshing, and long running batch jobs. HyperSizer® begins where FEA ends, by verifying structural integrity with the required calculations to predict all potential failure modes for all load cases, and identifying negative margins-of-safety. To resolve these negative margins, or to simply find a lighter-weight design, HyperSizer will optimize, or ‘size’, your design by surveying literally millions of candidate dimensions and laminates, and finding optimum variables down to the ply level — in a matter of minutes.

This interdisciplinary book comprises chapters dealing with combined action of heat transfer and concomitant processes that are involved in numerous industrial technologies.