Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3D design software for entertainment, natural resources, manufacturing, engineering, construction, and civil infrastructure, announced the release of Simulation Composite Analysis 2015, is a program that delivers composite analysis tools for design simulations.

Simulation Composite Analysis is an add-on for commercial finite element analysis (FEA) packages delivering multi-scale and progressive failure technologies for analyzing composite materials. Developed specifically for composites, it provides an unsurpassed combination of accuracy, efficiency and robust convergence in predicting damage evolution and material failure in composite structures. Simulation Composite Analysis integrates seamlessly with Abaqus/Standard FEA to provide users with state-of-the-art modeling capability for unidirectional and woven fiber-reinforced composite materials.

Simulation Composite Analysis is employed via a graphical user interface (GUI) within the Abaqus/Standard environment. It includes a plug-in application that allows for simple inclusion of composite materials into an FEA model, as well as an add-on module that enables the Abaqus/Standard solver to perform multi-scale analysis. Simulation Composite Analysis includes two auxiliary applications. Material Manager is used to easily characterize new composite materials and add them to the Composite Material Library. xSTIFF simplifies the creation of compatible Abaqus input files by automatically calculating and inserting any extraneous stiffness parameters required by elements that use reduced integration.