01 / Overview

Meet the connected
composite design environment.

CDS connects the length scales that shape composite performance: fiber and resin constituents, reinforcement architecture, effective ply properties, laminate stacking sequences and structural response. Follow how a material choice or fiber orientation changes stiffness, how manufacturing and moisture histories influence a part, and where a supported failure model predicts the first damage. Shared records carry properties and assumptions between compatible analyses, so you can compare alternatives without rebuilding the study at every scale.

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01.4 / Why composites?

Discover what composites can do.

Explore stiffness and weight with a live teaching study, then follow aircraft and sporting-equipment examples into the shared exercises.

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