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Product Name: Composite Star

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Composite Star is an all-embracing composite design software and database for composite materials and structures. It calculates: the properties of plies by micromechanics the properties of laminates by Classical Laminate Theory (CLT) or Netting Analysis the laminate load response and failure with standard and new failure criteria and progressive failure models and the properties, load response and failure of laminated beams, tubes and plates. Features: Laminate load response Laminate loads consist of external mechanical loads and internal thermal or hygroscopic loads. In order to solve real-world problems, Composite Star defines a constant and a variable load. Typically the constant load is a preload (e.g. thermal loads resulting from curing, an external static mechanical load). The variable load is used to define a dynamic external mechanical load. This permits the calculation of the extent to which the dynamic external load can be increased until failure occurs. A new failure criterion and simulation of the failure process Composite Star uses the ply-by-ply failure analysis in its most modern and advanced form. Besides the standard failure criteria (maximum stress, maximum strain, simple Puck, modified Puck, Tsai-Hill, Tsai-Wu, Hoffman, Hashin), Composite Star introduces one of the world's most detailed and sophisticated interactive criterion, Puck's action plane criterion. This criterion distinguishes between the different fracture modes (tensile and compressive fiber-fracture, tensile, shear and compressive inter fiber fracture), calculates the fracture plane angle for inter-fiber fracture and can predict catastrophic wedge effects. Progressive failure analysis allows strength prediction after first ply failure. Composite Star offers progressive failure calculation according to Tsai or the latest failure process and non-linear ply degradation model from Puck. The load will be increased step by step. If a failure occurs, the corresponding ply will be degraded and the new resulting laminate with the new stress and strain distribution will be calculated. All laminate properties, stresses and strains can be observed at every important moment of the load increase. Consequently, the progressive failure calculation results in a real simulation of the failure process. Puck's action plane failure criterion and degradation model has been tested thoroughly by university and industry research laboratories throughout the world and shows a unique conformity with reality. Furthermore, it is the new standard in VDI (Association of German Engineers) guidelines 2014 and is recommended by the IKV (Institute for Plastic Processing), Aachen, Germany and leading composite design experts worldwide. Composite structures Beams, tubes and plates belong to the few structures for which an exact elasticity solution can be found. Composite Star calculates all of the important properties for these structures under consideration of a great choice of cross-sections. With its new approach to laminate calculation, the results received are sure to be the closest to reality. The FEA interface Composite Star will also give you the ultimate interface to your specific FEA program. Any of the fiber, matrix, ply, laminate, stacking sequence, load or structural data can be imported or exported by a simple mouse-click. That's why this software is indispensable to the integrated design of composite materials and structures. The graph engine Composite Star's sophisticated graph engine allows display of any X-Y or polar graph, including any ply property versus the ply's orientation angle, carpet plots, ply-by-ply stress and strain diagrams and failure process diagrams. An additional and important tool for the designer is the display of the three-dimensional model of the failure envelope and the constant and variable stress vector for each ply. This allows immediate recognition of the stress state and reserve factor in the critical plies. The material database Composite Star stores all data in a state-of-the-art, full-featured database. Database features include extensive searching, filtering, sorting and data import and export. The database stores the data of fibers, matrices, plies, laminates, stacking sequences, loads and structures. In addition to the physical and engineering parameters, the database can store comments and text notes, manufacturing guidelines, manufacturing date and time, the manufacturer's name and address, quality control data and the price. The user interface The quality and efficiency of software is only as good as its user interface. Therefore, great importance has been placed on the calculation and database user interface. The different database tables are shown as grids. As with the so efficient spreadsheet programs, the user can change any value at any time and press one single calculation button, which will update all calculations results instantly. Although very sophisticated, the software can be used intuitively without complicated menus, windows or dialogs. Every function is just a mouse-click away. Composite Star also has an extensive report building capability. Data from the database and calculation results including diagrams and pictures can be displayed, stored and printed as text files, Acrobat Reader files or Word files. Support MATERIAL has been providing engineering services and software for the composites industry since 1990. It's software system CADWIND has become the industry's standard for filament winding technology. MATERIAL's engineering team has had many years of experience in the design and manufacturing of composites, and can provide you with help and training courses to meet your specific design needs. System requirements Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP 600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) Composite Star comes with a software protection hardlock. A parallel printer port is needed to connect the hardlock Specifications - Ply calculation ply calculation with fiber/matrix micromechanics all major micromechanics models (rule of mixtures, cylinder model, ...) calculation results: engineering constants, thermal and hygroscopic expansion coefficients Laminate properties calculation laminate calculation with Classical Laminate Theory (CLT) laminate calculation with Netting Analysis plies can be isotropic or anisotropic materials including honeycomb and foam for sandwich laminates calculation results for the whole laminate: thickness, density, stiffness and compliance matrices, in-plane and flexural Young's modulus, shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, Lekhnitskii's coefficients, thermal and hygroscopic expansion coefficients, through-thickness moduli and expansion coefficients, out-of-plane shear stiffness and compliance matrix calculation results for each ply in the laminate (in ply directions or laminate directions): transformation matrices, stiffness and compliance matrices, reduced stiffness and compliance matrices Laminate load response calculation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- external mechanical load definition by forces and moments per unit length, normalized flexural and in-plane stresses or midplane strain and curvatures -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- internal hygroscopic and thermal loads possibility to define a constant and a variable load calculation results for bottom, middle, top of each ply in the laminate (in ply directions or laminate directions): equivalent thermal and hygroscopic forces and moments, actual strains and stresses, hygroscopic and thermal strains and stresses, free hygroscopic and thermal strains, residual hygroscopic and thermal strains and stresses, equivalent strains Laminate failure calculation all major standard failure criteria: maximum stress, maximum strain, simple Puck, modified Puck, Tsai-Hill, Tsai-Wu, Hoffman, Hashin new detailed Puck's action plane failure criterion with prediction of the failure mode (tensile and compressive fiber fracture, tensile, shear and compressive inter fiber fracture) and the fracture plane angle for inter fiber fracture with warning against catastrophic wedge effects calculation of the reserve factor and effort for first ply failure for the constant load, variable load and total load calculation of the failure process (progressive failures after first ply failure until last ply failure) according to Tsai or Puck with failed ply degradation and calculation of the degraded laminate Structure calculation: plates rectangular plates any combination of clamped, simply supported or free edges any combination of point, line and pressure loads calculation of bending, stresses, failure, buckling and vibration Structure calculation: tubes and beams tubes or beams with circular, elliptical, rectangular, I, T or channel cross-sections any combination of clamped, simply supported or free end supports any combination of point, line and pressure loads, end moments and thermal loading calculation of bending, stresses, failure, buckling and vibration FEA interface import/export of any fiber, matrix, ply, laminate, stacking sequence, load or structural data supports any FEA system (e.g. ABAQUS, ANSYS, I-DEAS, LUSAS, NASTRAN, NISA, ...) Graph engine any X-Y or polar graph including ply properties versus ply angle, carpet plots, ply-by-ply stress and strain diagram failure process diagram 3D model of the failure envelope together with the constant and variable stress vector for each ply Database full feature database with the following tables: plies, laminates, stacking sequences, loads database tables: fibers, matrices database table: structures database features: searching, filtering, sorting data import/export to other databases, as text, to Excel, as HTML or XML data stored: physical and engineering parameters data stored: comments and text notes, manufacturing guidelines, manufacturing date and time, the manufacturer's name and address, quality control data, price User interface supports all units including metric and English units units and display format can be chosen for value groups or each value individually extremely powerful laminate and stacking sequence editor spreadsheet style use very simple menu, window and dialog structure extensive report building capability including diagrams and pictures reports can be displayed, stored and printed as text files, Acrobat Reader files, Word files simple help file extensive help file and user guide customize, save and restore all edit, display and desktop settings English as dialog language German and French as dialog language runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP Support support by phone, fax and internet hotline Composite Star papers and articles :- New ways in analytical calculation of laminates and composite structures paper presented at: SAMPE Technical Conference, October 1, 2003, Dayton, Ohio, USA COMPOSITES 2003, October 2, 2003, Anaheim, California, USA Winner of the COMPOSITES 2003 Best Paper Award ICERP 2004 International Conference and Exhibition on Reinforced Plastics, February 14, 2004, Chennai, India Composites Durability Workshop CDW-8, University of Zaragoza, March 26, 2004, Zaragoza, Spain Computerized calculation of composite laminates and structures: theory and reality paper presented at: SAMPE 2004, May 19, 2004, Long Beach, California, USA Composite design in the real world article published in the September 2003 issue of Reinforced Plastics magazine Composite Star order form:- Composite Star pricing: Single license: 1,490 EUR or 1,990 US$ Multiple licenses discount: 3 to 5 copies: 15% discount 6 to 10 copies: 20% discount 11+ copies: 25% discount Prices are in Euro or US Dollars. Please make your choice. European Union customers who do not have a VAT number as well as all Belgian customers will be charged 21% VAT. Full payment is due in advance. Updates: The price includes any updates including version 2.0. You will receive these updates immediately after their release by e-mail free of charge and without any additional costs. Delivery: Delivery will be by UPS express courier service within 2-4 working days after full receipt of payment. Shipping costs are: European Union: 20 EUR or 28 US$ Rest of Europe: 30 EUR or 42 US$ North-America: 40 EUR or 56 US$ Rest of the world: 50 EUR or 70 US$ Demonstration version and 30-day money back guarantee: We feel that a demonstration version with only limited features does not suit a sophisticated product like Composite Star. We would like to show you the whole potential of the product immediately and give you full support via our different hotlines. Therefore we decided against a demonstration version. Instead we offer you an unconditional 30-day money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with Composite Star, simply return it and we will refund the full purchase price immediately, no questions asked. The money back guarantee expires 30 days after the delivery of version 2.0 so that you can test the full potential of Composite Star. Customers from USA, Canada and Mexico: For questions and orders you can also contact our representative John Green at GSG Inc., Salt Lake City, USA.

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MATERIAL's software system CADWIND has been the industry's standard for filament winding technology for more then 10 years. In 2000 MATERIAL started development of Composite Star, a database and design software which will be released in spring... more