STANFORD COMPOSITES DESIGN WORKSHOP Organized by Prof.

Steve Tsai & International Colleagues July 21, 2010 to August 4, 2010 Daily 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
This continuing series of unique online training, certified by Stanford University, has attracted hundreds of participants from leading companies and government agencies from six continents. Distinguishing features are software packages complementing fundamental and advanced theories and models. Engineers and materials scientists learn to make predictions of strength and life of laminates, with and without holes, failure modes on micro- and macromechanics scales, progressive damage, delamination, CAI (compression after impact), error estimation, biaxial testing, and to think outside the box, enabling simultaneous weight and cost savings . Internationally recognized specialists provide presentations, software demonstrations, practice, and problem solutions. The workshop starts on July 21st and ends August 4th, 2010, for 11 weekdays (with rest on weekends!). Each session starts from 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon California time. The fee is US$500 that includes a copy of the 2008 book: Strength & Life of Composites, dedicated WebEx connection, and a tool box of software programs containing 3D Beam, and limited versions of Abaqus and MSC MD-Nastran. For those desiring an official transcript from Stanford University, he/she must complete and turn in homework assignments, and an additional fee of US$100 is required. For participants of previous tutorial/workshop, the fee is US$250 that includes updated and new topics and software (but not the book). For questions contact: Prof. Steve Tsai at stsai@stanford.edu, and for online registration see: http://compositesdesign.stanford.edu

STANFORD COMPOSITES DESIGN WORKSHOP III July 21 - August 4, 2010 http://compositesdesign.stanford.edu

Date Day 8 TO 10 AM California time 10:10 to Noon California time MICRO-MACROMECHANICS TOOL ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS, Steve DEMO -MIC-MAC/INPLANE, Steve Tsai: Tsai: symmetries; transformation of elastic properties of unidirectional Wed stress, strain, stiffness & composites; macros for ply selection & compliance; quasi-isotropy what-if (chart-quik) FLEX STIFFNESS, Steve Tsai: laminate INPLANE STIFFNESS, Steve Tsai: flexural formulation; ply strain and Plane stress laminate formulation; stress determination; MICThu effective engineering constants; ply MAC/INPLANE AND FLEX DEMO, Steve strain and stress determination Tsai FAILURE CRITERIA, Steve Tsai: uniaxial & shear strengths; plybased criteria; why stress over strain; strength ratio/failure index ANGLE-PLY LAMINATES, Daniel Melo: stiffness & strength matching; DEMO OF MIC-MAC/DUPLEX, HYBRID, VESSEL, BEAM AND OTHERS, Steve Tsai MIC-MAC/PD (progressive damage), Steve Tsai: matrix & fiber degradaton; piece-wise stress-strain curves; failure envelopes in 3 orthogonal planes LEKHNITSKII'S ANISOTROPIC PLATES, Sung Ha: closed-form solutions of plane elasticity; MIC-MAC/HOLE, Sung Ha: calculation/graphic for multiple boundary conditions MIC-MAC/FEA (Abaqus), Jin Park: beams; panels; test coupons; laminates with holes and slots; notched vs smooth coupons; MIC-MAC/FEA (Nastran) & MD-NASTRAN DEMO: Kim Parnell 3D BEAM FOR WINGS & WIND TURBINE BLADES, JH Kim: spar, rib and skin construction with arbitrary tapering, material, ply drop

21-Jul-10

22-Jul-10

23-Jul-10

Fri

26-Jul-10

STRENGTH OF LAMINATES, Steve Tsai: First- & Last-Ply Failure; Mon matrix degradation; limit & ultimate; hygrothermal stress UNSYMMETRIC LAMINATES, Steve Tsai: [A, B, D], continuous stacking; MIC-MAC/THIN WALL & Tue GENLAM, Steve Tsai: bending of solid and sandwich panels, decaying of coupling effects

27-Jul-10

28-Jul-10

MATERIALS & PROCESSING, Wed Antonio Miravete: constituent and composite materials.

29-Jul-10

DESIGN OF TURBINE BLADES, Steve Nolet; DESIGNING STRUCTURES BY 3D-BEAM, Sung Thu Ha: Excel-based FEA program; easy sizing for wings, fuselage, wind turbine blades

30-Jul-10

Fri

FULL-FIELD DEFORMATION, Tim DAMAGE TOLERANCE, Alan Nettles; Schmidt and Vinh Tran: static and TEST METHODS & ALLOWABLE, Ran dynamic optical mapping; BIAXIAL TESTING, Daniel Melo: smooth and Kim notched specimens

2-Aug-10

MASTER CURVES BY DMA, Daniel Melo; FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION, Mon Sung Ha: methodology, with applications to aircraft, wind turbine blades & hydrogen bottles

LIFE PREDICTION USING SUPER MICMAC+, KK Jin & YC Huang: life prediction, failure envelopes; MIC-MAC/WET, Sung Ha

3-Aug-10

ERROR ESTIMATIONS & RELIABILITY THEORY, PROBLEMS IN THE REAL WORLD, Tue Jeffrey Fong; TOOLS AND Steve Maier: What Works APPLICATIONS TO DESIGNS, Jeffrey Fong DELAMINATION & FAILURE SIMULATION MODELS, Wed Kim Parnell: Cohesive elements, Progressive Failure (PFA), VCCT theory & practice FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPOSITES, John Linck; SUMMARY, Steve Tsai; CLOSING, Daniel Melo

4-Aug-10