Documentation for the composites module#

High-performance module to calculate properties and perform analysis on composites. With the composites module, you are able to calculate:

  • A, B, D, E plane-stress stiffness matrices for plates
    • A, B, D, for classical plate theory (CLT, or CLPT)

    • E for first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT)

  • Material invariants, trace-normalized or not

  • Lamination parameters based on material invariants

  • Stiffness matrices (ABDE) based on lamination parameters

  • Based on Kassapoglou’s book, local buckling under compression, shear, and post-buckling

Code repository#

saullocastro/composites

Citing this library#

Castro, S. G. P. Methods to calculate composite plate properties (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2871782

Bibtex :

@misc{composites2024,

author = {Castro, Saullo G. P.}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.2871782}, title = {{Methods to calculate composite plate properties (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. 2024}} }

composites API#

License#

Copyright (c) 2012-2024, Saullo G. P. Castro (S.G.P.Castro@tudelft.nl).
All rights reserved.

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