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Project
Profile
Engineering Knowledge Base Tool-Set for Textile Composite
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Customer:
Air Force
Engineering
Services: Software development, material property prediction
and synthesis, knowledge base development.
Project Dates:
2001 - present
Summary:
To address the need for reduced insertion time of new
materials, MSC is developing and demonstrating computational
simulation tools for quickly and reliably predicting the thermo-physical
and strength properties of textile fiber reinforced composite materials.
The linked engineering
knowledge base is based on the Mathematica® style notebook interface,
and constructed like the conventional experimental building-block
approach. Individual modules that simulate microstructural behavior
provide input to structured material modules, whose output are macro-
or structural-level properties.
The generation
of limited data at any of the levels can then be expected to provide
(limited) validation at other levels. In this fashion, the total
amount of testing required to characterize a new textile fiber reinforced
material can be reduced. Data interpretation tools, effects of material
variability and a database function are included. Development, validation
and commercialization of this modular tool-set is the ultimate goal
of this program.
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Graphical
Output from a Mathematica based Notebook Designed to Model
Complex Fiber Paths in Textile Composites, Shown Here for
a 3D Braid.
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A Schematic
Showing the Multiple Damage Mechanisms Found in
Textile Composites
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