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Composites

Realize Your Product Promise


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Innovate with novel composite materials by engineeringlayered structures for even the most complex products.

You can incorporate eciency and certainty into your composite

formula with ANSYS Composite PrepPost.

Composites en two or more materia s t at

possess very dierent properties. Becausethey combine light weight, high strength andoutstan ing exi i ity, composites ave ecomestandard materials for manufacturing a range ofproducts, including complex-shaped products suchas oat u s an sur oar s.

These composites pose many challenges forR&D teams t at nee to i enti y t e appropriate

formulation for a re uired use. To successfully, you must dene thehich depends on theng with the thicknessch layer.

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Our solution for composites ANSYS CompositerepPost empowers you to e cient y mo e

the most complex composite structures and, at thesame time, fully understand the potential failureo pro uct mo e s. Wor ing in a ow-ris virtuaenvironment, you subject your product designs tosimple physical stresses and compute progressive

amage, e amination an crac ing.

We provide all the robust functionality you need tocondently analyze layered composite structures.

Team Alinghi used our software to build their 33rd

mericas Cup yacht. The work included a laminateoptimization study for the hull that consideredultiple load cases. Both macro- and constituent-leveroperties of the laminate materials were taken into

account, specifying orthotropic material propertiesor each individual layer in the hulls sandwich-

structured composite, using shell elements and theNSYS Mechanical solver. The team evaluated ANSYS

Composite PrepPost and noted its usefulness fordetermining characteristic material properties ofaminate materials.


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Carbon bers

Carbon ber disc brakeCarbon ber lightweight paddle

The intuitive implementation of ANSYS Composite PrepPost

brought out a revolution in composite simulations. We areable to realize a continuous design process from simulation

results to manufacturing, including design modications

within the development.

Hendrik Mester

Rotor Blade DevelopmentREpower Systems AG

Glider with laminatecomponents


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ANSYS delivers a range of capabilities to help you create and test composite-

based product models as well as condently prepare for manufacturing.

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An intuitive inter ace in ANSYS CompositePrepPost software eciently denes materials,plies and stacking sequences; it also oers awi e c oice o state-o -t e-art ai ure criteria.ANSYS solvers provide the foundation for accurateresults, while additional computations forai ure criteria are per orme wit in t e ANSYS

Composite PrepPost application.

T e tec no ogys post-processing capa i itiesallow you to conduct in-depth investigations ofultimate product integrity and behavior. You canview global results or conduct detailed analysisat the level of individual layers.

Unique draping capabilities enable you tocorrectly identify the exact orientation of everylayer. Two features oer support in the productmanufacturing stage: at-wrap and ply-bookcreation. T ese capa i ities contri ute to a ig

level of condence in ultimate product integrity.

Composite engineering so utions rom ANSYSwork with the ANSYS Mechanical interfacein ANSYS Workbench to provide a strongoun ation or accurate resu ts an a vance

failure analysis. You can automate your compositestructure designs through integration with theANSYS Mec anica APDL inter ace to ena eadvanced scripting.

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f .NSYS oers symmetry capabilities that simplify

and accelerate stack-up denitions.

ou can easily orient complex shapes with continuouslchanging material orientations.

Composite failureCourtesy Kolossos via WikimediaCommons.


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Our tools facilitate dening the proper baseorientation and main axis of a composite via asophisticated yet easy-to-use system of rosettes.These dene materials reference directions ina genera y curve structure. You simp y e nea discrete number of rosettes indicating localdirections, then blend them to properly orient theentire structure automatica y. Our too s mo easymmetric laminate structures using elementsets that are overlapping and oriented in multiple

irections. T is is a unique ANSYS capa i ity.

Composite PrepPost streamlines design ofstructures wit ig egrees o curvatures or rapiorientation changes. It leverages other ANSYSsolutions to accurately predict both drapabilityand ber angle correction necessitated bystructura curvature. Compared to typical trial-and-error development methods used in the bicycle industry,

we reduced the number of cost- and time-intensive physical prototypes using ANSYS.

Norbert Schramm

Dipl. Ing. Research AssistantChemnitz University of Technology

Scientists at the Institute for LightweightStructures at Germanys ChemnitzUniversity of Technology identiedstresses for a carbon-berreinforcedmountain bike frame for GHOST BikesGmbH. The research team used ANSYSComposite PrepPost to analyze potentialailure within the complex lightweight structure.

Composite PrepPost allows you to visualize thicknesses and results; it also provides material denitions for complex problems.


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3-D composites model extrusion from a at plydenition tted to a given CAD geometry helpsin modeling complex shapes.

Curvature correrom draping ca

ations on a sphsurface. The rerepresents thesponding at-w

symmetric laydenition on T-structure


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S mulat on for the Real World

ANSYS Composite PrepPost and other structuralmechanics tools are one part of our suite that

e ivers state-o -t e-art unctiona ity ept ,breadth, a plethora of advanced capabilitiesand integrated multiphysics providingcon ence t at your simu ation resu ts re ectreal-world outcomes. The comprehensive rangeof engineering simulation solution sets provides

access to virtua y any e o engineeringsimulation that a design process requires.Organizations around the world trust ANSYSto e p t em rea ize t eir pro uct promises.

Debonding of compositebeam (above) and cohesivezone model (right)

3-D stress assessment from 2-D models improves evaluation of failure. Left imageshows failure based on 2-D theory; right image shows failure from through-thickness stresses.


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NSYS is dedicated exclusively to developing engineering simulation software thatosters rapid and innovative product design. Our technology enables you to predictith condence that your product will thrive in the real world. For over 40 years,

customers in the most demanding markets have trusted our solutions to help ensurethe integrity of their products and drive business success through innovation.

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