Utah Laminates 4.0 review
DownloadUtah Laminates is laminated plate theory software for the Macintosh.
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Utah Laminates is laminated plate theory software for the Macintosh. You can graphical edit and composite laminate selecting or creating fibers, matrices, and plies from a material data base.
When the laminate is done, you can then calculate all mechanical and hygrothermal properties of the laminates. There are many plotting options and many calculations options.
Here are some key features of "Utah Laminates":
Graphical editing of the laminate. You see a picture of each ply of the laminate; you can click to add or change plies, you can cut and paste plies to edit the laminate.
Laminate analysis of all standard laminated plate theory matrices in either normalized or unnormalized form.
Analysis of all engineering properties including couplings between flexural and in-plane strains and shear coupling constants
Analysis of thermal expansion coefficients.
Analysis of moisture expansion coefficients.
You can subject a laminated to any combination of mixed stresses and strains, thermal loading, and moisture content and calculate all laminate and ply stresses and stress. Any component of the resulting stresses or strains can be plotted.
Quick analysis of force-displacement law for various beam loadings for beams of any dimension made from a laminate.
Plotting of plate displacements for any applied stress state.
Each ply can be based or supplied ply properties or you can specify a fiber, matrix, and fiber volume fraction for the ply. When you specify fiber, matrix, and fiber volume fraction, the ply properties are calculated using state-of-the-art micromechanics based of variational mechanics solutions.
All material properties can be edited and expanded to provide a data base of fibers, matrices, and plies to be available as building blocks for laminates.
All calculation results are output to a standard Macintosh text-editing window. You can edit the text within Utah Laminates or you can copy the text to any word-processing software.
The calculation output can be in user-selected units.
All graphics results can be copied and pasted into any graphics editing software.
All results can be printed.
Complete on-line help is always available. The manual can be printed from within Utah Laminates or downloaded above as a PDF document.
Limitations:
Registration screen at startup.
What's New:
Updated for MacOS 9.
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