Create and classify
Add a blank material, assign the correct material type, and enter the mechanical, thermal, moisture, strength, and source properties required by downstream models.
Capabilities / 02.2
Turn scattered material data into
trusted reusable records.
CDS organizes mechanical, thermal, moisture, strength, diffusion, thermoset cure, semicrystalline thermoplastic, processing, and source data into records shared by every downstream model.
Source-aware material inputs and comparison outputs share one workspace.
Workbench capture · September 7, 2026. Representative interface and demo data, not a new solver run or validation certificate. Control locations may differ in later releases.02.2 / How CDS solves it
From engineering question to evidenceDefine dependent properties
Use the property input controls to enter constants or a simplified temperature–property table with one shared lock. Show zero terms when stored zero-value fields must be completed. The selected units and classification travel with the record.
Calibrate polymer evolution
Store thermoset cure or PEEK/PEKK crystallization kinetics, reaction heat, saturation, diffusivity, and anisotropic process-shrinkage data with the owning matrix or ply.
Reuse and exchange
Duplicate material records for variants, load selected records from another CDS file, and export compatible properties for spreadsheet or finite-element workflows.
Workbench availability: released models, inputs and compatible study paths. The wider theory library includes reference formulations not available in every Workbench solve.
Released models, connections and theory
∑ Cure, crystallization & material transport
Models → material-model folders · assigned through Materials
InputsCalibrated kinetics, modulus or transport laws and material assignmentResults / handoffMaterial laws consumed by compatible Micro or transport calculations
Independent model records can be linked together through material inputs. A saved model must be assigned to a material before it contributes to a simulation.
Formulations and study choices
- Kamal–Sourour autocatalytic
- Kamal–Sourour with diffusion control
- Nth-order Arrhenius
- CHILE (degree of cure)
- UV intensity-dependent cure
- Nakamura–Avrami
- Temperature-dependent tabular
- 1D Fickian diffusion
Outcomes and boundaries
- Material type controls downstream interpretation and export
- Source URL, citation, status, basis and notes can be assigned to each record
- Supplier-supported data and editable CDS completion fields remain distinguishable
- Generated lamina and laminate properties can be returned to the library
Delivered capability
Methods available in CDSProperty tree switches between mechanical, physical, transport, failure, cure/crystallization, cost, and processing data
Composite-vendor classes and Sandwich Structures organize bundled source-aware examples
Thermoset choices include nth-order, Kamal–Sourour, Prout–Tompkins, and diffusion-limited Kamal kinetics
Thermoplastic choices include single- and double-branch Nakamura/Avrami-style crystallization
Standard View edits one selected material; Table View compares and edits multiple records
Zero-term visibility exposes stored zero values for database completion
Up to ten temperature-property pairs can be stored for supported mechanical, physical, and transport properties