01 / Overview

Start with the material. See what it does in the part.

Follow a material choice from fiber and resin constituents through reinforcement architecture, effective ply properties and laminate stacking sequences to structural response. See how fiber orientation changes stiffness, how manufacturing and moisture histories influence a part, and where a supported failure model predicts the first damage. Shared records carry properties and assumptions between compatible analyses, so you can compare alternatives without rebuilding the study at every scale.

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01.4 / Why composites?

Start with stiffness and weight.

Try a live teaching study to see how stiffness and weight change, then work through aircraft and sporting-equipment examples in the shared exercises.

Light-mode laminate ply editor, angle-colored live stack and ABD properties
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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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