User’s Manual, CADEC release 14
1 Welcome
1.1 Subscriptions
1.2 Login
1.3 Objects
1.4 Icons
1.5 Tooltips
1.6 Field types
1.7 Validators
1.8 Excel
1.9 Units
1.10 About
1.11 Questions?
2 My Documents
2.1 My Fibers
2.1.1 Fiber properties
2.1.2 Transversely isotropic fiber
2.2 My Matrices
2.2.1 Matrix properties
2.3 My Laminas
2.3.1 Unidirectional laminas.
2.3.2 Random laminas.
2.3.3 Fabric (Textile) laminas.
2.3.4 Experimental laminas
2.3.5 Intrinsic lamina properties
2.4 My Laminates
2.5 My Shell Loads
2.6 My Environments
2.7 My Sections
2.7.1 Drawing a section
2.7.2 Panel
2.7.3 Concentrated Stiffness
2.8 My Section Loads
3 Chapters
4 Micromechanics
4.1 Unidirectional micromechanics results
4.1.1 Modulus, Moduli
4.1.2 Hygrothermal and Transport results
4.1.3 Strength results
4.1.4 Fracture Toughness results
4.2 Random and Textile micromechanics results
5 Ply Mechanics
5.1 Stress transformation
5.2 Strain transformation
6 Macromechanics
6.1 Density and CTE
6.2 Hygro-thermal loads
6.3 Lamina Stiffness matrix
6.4 Laminate Stiffness matrix
6.5 Laminate Compliance matrix
6.6 Laminate Moduli
6.7 Lamina-in-laminate strain
6.8 Lamina-in-laminate stress
6.9 Laminate notation
6.9.1 Symmetric laminates
7 Strength
7.1 Intact Strength
7.2 Degraded Strength
7.3 Truncated Maximum Strain
8 Damage
9 Textile composites
9.1 Weave description
9.1.1 Weave geometry
9.2 Results textile lamina
10 Beams
10.1 Segment Stiffness
10.2 Section Stiffness
10.3 Forces & Moments
10.3.1 How to compute torque and bending moments on beams
10.4 Strength
10.5 Strains
11 Plates and stiffened panels
12 Shells
13 Concrete
14 Bibliography
User’s Manual, CADEC release 14