Material property data developed by the National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) at Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) is now available in a more user-friendly format thanks to a new agreement with e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company.
The agreement allows MSC Software of Belgium to include publicly available NCAMP data in its Digimat software, a leading material and structural modeling platform. The latest version, Digimat-MX, integrates NCAMP data as ready-to-run progressive failure models for unidirectional and woven composite, for various conditions. Digimat users can directly perform predictive structural analysis with the reference NIAR grades for stiffness, as well as for progressive failure.
“Over the last two years, we’ve been partnering with NIAR to develop, verify and validate the Digimat Virtual Allowable platform, said Roger Assaker, CEO of e-Xstream engineering and chief material strategist of MSC Software. “Today, we are pleased to release Digimat material models of the composites available in the NCAMP database. I’m sure that these models will be of great use for our composites customers across the aerospace industry."
Digimat is holding several webinars and other events to familiarize users with their projects including a presentation by NIAR research scientist Waruna Seneviratne at the Global Digimat Users’ Conference Oct. 4-6 in Portugal. For information on these events, visit http://goo.gl/f3UoYn.
NCAMP works with the FAA and industry partners to qualify material systems and populate a shared materials database that can be viewed publicly. NCAMP started as a FAA-funded program within NIAR and stemmed from NASA's 1995 Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment (AGATE).
About e-Xstream engineering
Founded in 2003, e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company, is a software and engineering services company 100 percent focused on the multi-scale modeling of composite materials and structures. The company helps customers, material suppliers and material users across many industries reduce the cost and time needed to engineer innovative materials and products using Digimat, the nonlinear multi-scale material and structure modelling platform. Since September 2012, e-Xstream engineering is a subsidiary of MSC Software Corporation. www.e-xstream.com