COMPOSITES SOFTWARE

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• Environmental, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• General Software
• Image Processing and Analysis
• Laminate Analysis
• Modelling Textiles including braid calculator
• Process Modelling (Filament winding and tapelaying)
• Process Modelling (Resin Transfer Moulding)
• Process Modelling (Thermoplastic Matrix Composites)

General software

• Adhesives Design Toolkit (National Physical Laboratory ).
• Aero Optimal
• AnalySwift SwiftComp (models composites as easily as metals, for quick virtual testing or as a plug-in for FEA)
• AnalySwift VABS (enables rigorous composite blade/beam modeling)
• Autodesk Simulation Composite Design
• BMI3: Buckling Mode Interaction Program
• CompoSIDE: web-based integrated design platform with a material database and laminate stack analysis, FE application and other functionalities
• Composite Oracle^TM
• Composite Star 2.0 (free 30-day trial to download - "all-embracing composite design software and database for composite materials and structures")
• Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB
• Engidesk: "toolbox for the design and analysis of composite structures"
• EuCIA Eco Impact Calculator
• Fibreline Composites Calculation Program (registration required: electronic calculation of the load-carrying capacity of construction profiles for beams and columns)
• FiberSIM (integrated software for composite design and manufacturing)
• Fibrify: define optimal fiber designs through integrated FEA simulation tools ~ control, monitor and manage equipment in real-time.
• InCA Intelligent Cost Analysis^® (models the production environment using cost as the measure for optimisation)
• Laminate Tools (Design-Analysis-Check-Manufacture)
• Mechanical Engineering Calculations (MechEng Computing LLC)
• Process and Mechanical Modelling of Engineering Composites (Anthony Pickett)
• author tried to use only software that is ‘free’ for students to experiment with these codes.
• Part 1: Fundamentals
• Part 2: Analysis Tutorials
• Simulayt (integrated design, analysis and manufacture of structures made from fibre reinforced materials)

Environmental, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Analysis

• Ansys Granta EduPack Eco Audit for Engineering Design tool
• Carbon Footprint Tool (British Plastics Federation)
• CCaLC2 carbon footprinting tool (carbon calculations over the life cycle of industrial activites)
• EuCIA Eco Impact Calculator
• FootprintCalc: free product footprint calculator
• GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) .. Argonne’s Energy Systems and Infrastructure Analysis division
• IMPACT^® for construction professionals to measure embodied carbon, life cycle environmental (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) performance of buildings.
• LCDN: Life Cycle Data Network
• Makersite: cloud-based platform combining data aggregation and live applications for agile product life cycle management
• MarineShift360 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) purpose-built marine industry tool for cradle to grave assessment in yacht construction.
• openLCA: "free software for everything you need in sustainability modeling"
• Organisational Carbon Footprinting Tool (Circular Ecology)
• RICS whole-life carbon assessment 2nd edition for the built environment (OneClick LCA)
• SimaPro: Sustainability In Metrics
• Sphera (formerly Gabi): next generation product sustainability solution with a powerful Life Cycle Assessment engine
• Sustainable Minds^® Eco-concept + Life Cycle Assessment cloud-delivered software
• Tool for Reduction and Assessment of Chemicals and Other Environmental Impacts (TRACI)  TRACI 2.0
• Umberto LCA+
• YETI: Yacht Environmental Transparency Index

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data

• CarbonMinds (CM) cm.chemicals database for chemicals and plastics
• EcoInvent: "the world's most consistent & transparent life cycle inventory database"
• EcoProfiles LCI and EPD for plastics (Plastics Europe)
• ELCD: European reference Life Cycle Database (discontinued 29 June 2018)
• FootprintData ~ overview of freely available LCA / footprint data and tools
• Global LCA Data Access network
• Industrial Ecology Data Commons
• openLCA Nexus LCA and sustainability data
• Plastics Europe Public LCI Database
• PREMISE enables the alignment of life cycle inventories within the ecoinvent database.
• Total Materia: "the world's most comprehensive materials database".

Emission Factors (EF)

• CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) Registry Number
• Carbon Accounting UK
• GHG Management Institute
• UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory

Equity (social commitment to fairness, justice, and equality)

• Societal Impact Toolkit (Springer Nature)

Finite element Analysis (FEA)

• FEMstrutture
• LUSAS Composite
• Strand7

Image Processing and Analysis software

• DigitalSurf Mountains^®  (MountainsMap^® free trial)
• GifCam freeware - produce animated GIFs from on-screen activity
• ImageJ freeware
• Imaris 3D/4D Microscopy Image Viewer
• Simpleware Limited  (30-day trial version)

Laminate Analysis

• ASCA/Windows: Automated System for Composite Analysis
• Autodesk Simulation Composite Design  alternative link
• CADEC/Windows: Computer Aided Design Environment for Composites
• CLPT/JAVA: Classical Laminate Theory with JAVA
• CODA/Windows: Component Design Analysis
• CoDeAn: cAppito App Development (iTunes)
• Composite Cylinder Design Software
• CompositePro^TM
• ESAComp
• ESDU Composites/Fortran: Design of laminated plates subjected to in-plane loads and bending moments, ISBN 1 86246 000 0.
• HyperSizer
• LAM3D: Three-dimensional laminate media analysis
• LAM3DNL: Three-dimensional non-linear laminate media analysis
• LAMONA: LAMinate Optimization Netting Analysis program
• LAP: Laminate Analysis Program/Windows
• PROMAL: Program for Micromechanical and Macromechanical Analysis of Laminates
• pyPLY: a set of Python classes designed for composite materials calculations
• Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composites/Fortran
• The Laminator - Classical Analysis of Composite Laminates
• Think Composites Europe
• V-Lab: Virtual Laboratories for Composites Analysis

Modelling Textiles

• AniForm virtual forming (technology to predict the formability of composite laminates)
• Braid calculator (A&P Technology)
• Interactive drape (enables investigation of how woven materials form to complex shapes)
• TexGen: geometry of textiles at the unit cell level
• WiseTex: virtual textile composites software

Process Modelling (Filament Winding and Tape Laying)

• ACRAPLACE  (off-line fiber placement programming system)
• AniForm Suite (composite forming processes)
• CADfil (filament winding software)
• CADwind (filament winding software)
• ComposicaD (filament winding software)
• FiberGrafiX (filament winding pattern generation and optimization software)
• PatternMaster (software to develop and visualize filament-wound parts with 3D winding simulations)

Process Modelling (RTM)

• LIMS (Delaware)
• myRTM (IWK)
• PAM RTM (ESI-Group)
• RTMFLOT (Montreal)
• RTMWorx (NL) which developed from pi-7/SEPRAN (TNO Delft)

Process Modelling (Thermoplastic matrix composites)

• COMPROSOFT: Composites Processing Software
• SIGMASOFT^® Virtual Molding including SIGMAinteract