PFA - Honeycomb Sandwich Structure (PFA_HONEYCOMB)

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Product Highlights:

·         Predicts damage resistance, durability and damage tolerance of honeycomb composite structures.

·         Uses an advanced theory to predict the various failure mechanisms in honeycomb composite structures such as transverse shear failure, shear crimping, flexural core crushing, face wrinkling and intra-cell buckling.

·         Takes full advantage of GENOA progressive failure technology to predict damage initiation, growth and final failure in honeycomb composite structures.

·         Predicts the progressive failure response of honeycomb composite structures with 2D/3D braided/laminated/stitched/woven face-sheets. Structural damage in the composite face-sheets can be tracked beginning from micro-cracking in composite constituents and fiber/matrix interfaces and ending at the ply, laminate and structural levels. 

·         Uses virtual crack closure and discrete cohesive zone model techniques (VCCT/DCZM) to predict damage initiation, growth and final failure in the interface layers of honeycomb composite structures.

·         Extremely effective for analysis of large-scale honeycomb composite structures.

·         Can be used as a virtual testing tool to reduce full-size testing of honeycomb composite structures.

·         Requires minimal experimental support to accurately predict the complicated progressive failure response of honeycomb composite structures.

Applications/Benefits

·         Predicts durability and damage tolerance of aerospace and automobile honeycomb composite structures.

·         Extremely effective for analysis of large-scale honeycomb composite structures.

·         Takes full advantage of GENOA progressive failure technology.           

·         Requires minimal experimental support.

·         Can be used as a virtual testing tool to reduce full-size testing.