1 Reply Latest reply on Jan 9, 2014 11:56 AM by Jared Conway

Simulating Carbon Fiber In Solidworks

William Garner Jan 8, 2014 9:05 PM

Hello, I am trying to take data from a companies data sheet and input it into Solidworks composite function in simulation but I cant seem to see a correlation between the standardized values that companies quote on there data sheets and the values that solidworks requires in order to make accurate calculations. Does anyone have experience with this? http://www.hexcel.com/Resources/DataSheets/Prepreg-Data-Sheets/M35_4_eu.pdf is the prefabricated panel I am looking to model in Solidworks.

Thank you!

Re: Simulating Carbon Fiber In Solidworks

Jared Conway Jan 9, 2014 11:56 AM (in response to William Garner)

if its a prefabricated panel rather than individual layers, i wouldn't worry about using the composite function

if you're performing a static analysis you really only need E and v, E is there, v you'd need to contact them for. i doubt they test it and would have it so you may have to just make an estimate.
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