ANSYS 15.

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Composites Technology

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ANSYS Confidential and Proprietary Information

2013 ANSYS Advisory Council Meeting

New Features in ACP 15.0

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ACP Training

Easy Submodeling for Composites

IRFs shell
Global
Results

SHELL

Create solid model of

critical part (C5 E2)

SOLID

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and map shell results

to the cut faces
(D7 - E3)
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IRFs solid
ACP Training

Enhanced Interlaminar Shear Stress

for Solid Composites
Consideration of solid element stacks for stress computation:
Boundary conditions at top and bottom surface
Continuity between elements

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ACP Training

Enhanced Interlaminar Shear Stress

for Solid Composites
Solid Stack
3 elements

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Layup

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Result (solid185)

ACP Training

ACP: Recomputed
stresses

Support for Thermal Solid Composites in

Mechanical
Thermal analysis now supports solid layer elements SOLID278/SOLID279

Thermal solid composites are

now supported in models with
Imported Layered Sections.

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ACP Training

Temperature Dependent Material Model

in ACP Post
ACP Post supports evaluation of temperature dependent strength and
Failure Criteria
given the following additional data:
Temperature dependent material properties
Computed layered element temperatures

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ACP Training

1D Lookup Tables
New 1D Lookup Tables defined by

Start Point

Orientation

Value /
Coordinate
Pairs

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ACP Training

Interface Delamination
Interface delaminations can now be modeled in Mechanical

Supported techniques to define failure criteria:

Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT)

Cohesive Zone Model (CZM)
Definition:
1. Define CZM material properties/ VCCT fracture criteria in ED

2. Create delamination interface in ACP or Mechanical

3. Configure and run crack growth analysis in Mechanical

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Interface Delamination

ACP

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CDM-Based Progressive Damage

New nonlinear solution process in MAPDL to simulate the damage

propagation in composites beyond first ply failure

Damage evolution with Continuum Damage Mechanics (CDM) method

Example: progressive damage of a composite plate under stretch load

Start of damage (layer 1)

Progressed damage (layer 1)

Progressed damage (layer 3)

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Geometry Export of Ply and Laminate

Surfaces
Export ply geometries with
offset and fiber
alignment for further
processing:
- Generate 3D shapes

- Check collision
- Production data

Color stands for the fiber angle

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Failure Criteria Enhancments:

Hoffman and LaRC 04 failure criteria
New 2D and 3D failure criteria

Quadratic failure criteria

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Damage mode based

ACP Training

ACP Program Improvements

Refactored ACP Post:

Explicit computation of results
for defined geometrical scope
Handling of plots in GUI
similar to ANSYS Mechanical

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Easy transfer of composite definitions between ACP cells and

between WB projects
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Thank you for your attention

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Composite Topics for the Future

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Shear dependent material models for woven materials

Material degradation models (knock-down factors)

Composite fatigue framework

Consider stresses and spring back effects induced during

manufacturing

Specific functionality for winded and braided plies

Mapping of composite layups to existing meshes.

Working with effective ply boundaries

Coincident volume fill mesh for sandwich cores and filler areas

Separate module for composite solid meshing

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ACP Training

Volume fill mesh operations for 'noodles'

or sandwich cores
ACP Shell Layup

Hollow blade

Combined ACP Solid

Model with shell mesh

Result

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Layered shell with filled

volume mesh

ACP Training

Specific functionality for winded and

braided plies

Complex laminate properties (thickness, sequence and fiber

orientations) in the pole regions

Layup in ACP is directly derived from winding simulation

Import
winding
data

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Export
shell or
solid
model

ACP Training

Shear Dependent Material Models for

Woven Materials

Draping simulation can compute

Effective fiber directions
Thickness variations
Shear of woven materials

Material shear significantly affects the

material properties

Consider shear dependent material

properties in the analysis

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Material Degradation Models

(Knock-down factors)

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Due to manufacturing process

related issues the quality of
composite material is not constant
over a part.

Areas of reduced quality are often

known upfront or can be identified
by destructive as well as nondestructive inspection methods.

There shall be an option based on

look-up tables to define
degradation-values dependent on
locations for certain material
properties

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Fatigue Analysis for Composites

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Prominent topics with composite

structures.

Classical models based on macroscopic

material-models requires a huge amount
of test-data. For general laminates this
approach is not feasible

Fatigue-models have to be able to

calculate stresses and strains for fibers
and matrices based on the nodal
solutions for every model.

Fatigue then can be evaluated for fiber

and matrix separately for every layer
within every element relaying only on a
limited set of material-data for fibers and
matrix.

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Working with effective ply-boundaries

Explore concepts to handle ply
boundaries independent of FE mesh
discretization

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