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Composite Filament Winding

Filament winding has become a popular construction technique in a wide variety of industries for creating composite structures with high stiffness-to-weight ratios. The difficulty in accurately analyzing the structural behavior of a filament wound body derives from the continually varying orientation of the filaments. The standard capabilities of commercial finite element codes are inadequate to model the spatial variation of fiber orientation in a practical way.

This extension plugs into Abaqus/CAE and enables users to create, run, and postprocess a finite element model, allowing for detailed specification of structural geometry and winding layout parameters. Downloadable files are made available for the Wound Composite Modeler below.

The Wound Composite Modeler is licensed annually by a services contract through the SIMULIA South office in Lewisville, TX, USA.
A license key based on the Abaqus site ID will be generated by the SIMULIA South office which will allow the WCM to be run by any number of users at one time. There is no paid-up license option for the WCM. Please contact our office through the link at the bottom of this page for more details.

>> Wound Composite Modeler 6.11-c (32 MB ZIP)

If you are in need of a version of the Wound Composite Modeler which will run on an earlier version of Abaqus, please contact the SIMULIA South office.

The following is a summary of the capabilities of the Wound Composite Modeler.

>> Wound Composite Modeler Capability Brief (185 KB PDF)

In order to install the Wound Composite Modeler plug-in, click on the link above and save the file to a temporary directory. Then unzip the saved file and copy the resulting folder into the abaqus_plugins folder of your Abaqus installation.

A WMV-based (Windows Media Audio/Video file) demo of the WCM is available for download. The demo covers the creation of wound composite tanks in two and three dimensions. The full demo lasts approximately 50 minutes

>> Wound Composite Modeler Demo (61 MB)

Additional Information

Extensions for Abaqus are made available "as is" and without warranty. Support may be available for some extensions for a fee.
>> Contact your local support office

This extension for Abaqus was developed by the SIMULIA Southern region office. Contact their office for more specfic information on this extension.
>> Contact SIMULIA South

Last Updated: January 11, 2012 11:06 AM