Calculation and Design

When considering a part for composite manufacture or migrating from metal to composite for lightweighting, a number of factors need to be taken into account at the design stage.

Our lines of work:

• Material selection strategies (fibres, resins, cores…) for the development of composite components.
• Methods for the selection of manufacturing processes for the development of composite components.
• Correlation between theoretical elastic and strength constants and those obtained from mechanical tests
• Design and calculation of composite parts using CAD (NX) / CAE (Ansys) software.
• Design for the migration of a metallic product to composite
• Design strategies for composite parts.
• New accelerated methods for long-term thermo-mechanical characterisation.
• Multi-scale digitalisation of the thermo-mechanical performance of composites.
• Determination of the dynamic performance of composite materials.