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.

>> Wound Composite Modeler 6.7-4 (8.69 MB ZIP)
>> Wound Composite Modeler 6.7-EF1 (8.68 MB ZIP)
>> 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.

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This extension for Abaqus was developed by the SIMULIA Southern region office. Contact their office for more specfic information on this extension.
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Last Updated: April 18, 2008 9:46 AM