Center for Composite Materials

Overview / Gallery

See the software
in action.

Explore the current browser-based CDS Engineering Workbench across traceable records, multiscale models, process and structural simulation, optimization, and reusable results.

Interface gallery

6 workflow views
Light-mode laminate ply editor, angle-colored live stack and ABD properties
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Connected laminate workspace

A 16-ply laminate using a linked Micro recipe. The live stack is colored by ply angle, alongside the shared CLT properties.

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Light-mode material comparison with eight records and colored Ashby groups
02

Materials and Ashby comparison

Eight selected reference records populate the comparison table and material-class plot. Sources and screening values must still be checked for design use.

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Actual short-fiber GUI with orientation inputs and a spatially distributed fiber preview
03

Random short-fiber orientation

Cox shear-lag teaching setup with Fa = 0.15 and Fp = 0.35. The 3D illustration uses normalized fiber lengths; it is not a resolved RVE or a physical-scale micrograph.

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Light-mode thick-laminate temperature field, heating history and through-thickness section
04

Thick-section thermal lag

A 64-mm, 16-layer teaching variation of the local T700 demo, with a heating-ramp cursor and through-thickness section. Conduction demonstration only: the GUI reports missing reaction-heating data. Not a NASA benchmark or a qualified cure cycle.

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Light-mode T700S material record with supplier provenance and editable elastic properties
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Source-aware material records

The T700S source panel distinguishes supplier data from editable CDS completion fields. Property groups, units and locks remain visible.

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Light-mode Workbench carpet plot and colored laminate stack
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Live design-space exploration

The light-mode carpet-plot workspace connects a design-space surface to the live laminate. This is an existing GUI capture, not a newly validated result.

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