Autodesk® Helius Composite represents the new generation of the popular Simulation Composite Design and CompositePro design and analysis software for fiber-reinforced composite materials, laminates, and structures. Helius Composite provides you with a single graphical user interface that permits fast, easy access to a multitude of composite analysis tools based on Classical Laminate Theory (CLT) and micromechanics. Its vast arsenal of composite analysis tools bridges the gap between engineering hand calculations and full-scale finite element analysis. It provides analysts and designers with instantly available, detailed information on the behavior of composite materials and laminates. It is simple and intuitive to use, allowing you to interactively explore the many different what-if scenarios that constitute a large part of the design and analysis process. Helius Composite will quickly become the most valuable tool in your composites toolbox.
Helius Composite delivers fast, accurate solutions for bending, vibration, and buckling of laminated plates, sandwich panels, laminated tubes, and laminated beams. In addition, it computes an extensive array of basic laminate response data such as laminate stiffness and compliance matrices, equivalent engineering properties, laminate mid-plane strains and curvatures, ply stresses, ply strains, laminate strengths, progressive failure responses, failure envelopes, and much more. At the ply level, Helius Composite's micromechanics module can be used to predict the response of the composite material based on known properties of the fiber and matrix materials.
Helius Composite comes with an extensive material database of pre-characterized composite materials that can be used to build laminates, in addition to numerous fiber, matrix, and core materials that can be used to create new composite materials, composite laminates, and sandwich panels. You can easily add new composite materials, constituent materials, and laminates to the material database.
This User's Guide provides a step-by-step description of each analysis feature contained in Autodesk Helius Composite.