LUSAS Composite plus

A feature-rich engineering analysis system for advanced composite analysis consisting of:

• Extended advanced high-performance element library including:

• Bars
• Thick + thin beams
• Plane stress/strain continuum
• Axisymmetric solid continuum
• Solid continuum (high order)
• Flat thin membranes
• Curved thin semiloof shells
• Curved thick shells
• Axisymmetric membranes
• Axisymmetric thin shells
• Axisymmetric solid continuum with non-axisymmetric loading
• Generalised joint/springs/gaps.

• Advanced materials including:

• Isotropic, orthotropic, anisotropic and rigidity models, composite lay-ups for shells and solids, temperature dependency.

• Integrated Windows User Interface
• Integrated DXF and IGES interfaces
• Fast Iterative Solver Technology

For: Linear static stress, linear buckling, natural frequency, fatigue, nonlinear and dynamic analysis problems when used with the appropriate LUSAS Composite plus option.

LUSAS Composite plus Options

Nonlinear Analysis

• Large displacement, large rotation and large strain geometric nonlinearities
• Material nonlinearity including plasticity, concrete, damage, crushable foam, rubber, creep, phase change, temperature dependent and user supplied models
• Incremental, iterative (MNR or NR), line search and arc length solution procedures
• Follower forces, centripetal stress stiffening
• Slideline/slidesurface contact algorithms

Dynamic Analysis

• Spectral and Forced Response
• Modal or Rayleigh Damping
• Modal synthesis
• Transient Dynamics (Implicit and Explicit)
• Automatic time step selection
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Time dependant materials and loading

Fast Multifrontal Solvers

• Fast Multifrontal Direct Solver
• Fast Multifrontal Block Lanczos Eigensolver

Other Software Available

New product coming soon: LUSAS HPM (High Precision Moulding)