Select the case
Choose a simulation block and the run you want to study.
Workflow / 03.5 Design
Evaluate the complete
composite structure.
Choose a compatible released plate, cylinder, beam, section, joint or analytical study. Shared laminate inputs do not make every model combination valid.
Workbench path
Choose. Inspect. Refine.
Inspect in Live Sim
See geometry, assignments and results together.
Refine the model
Change geometry or selections and follow the downstream effect.
Stored ply properties bypass Micro. Mixed stacks keep both paths. Gray blocks are not selected. Geometry, process schedules and other model records are omitted here for clarity; a real run must include all required references.
Fatigue uses intact CLT endpoint stresses and measured S–N calibration. It is evaluated separately from Run and progressive failure. The dashed handoff is not active: optimization still uses current properties until a degradation law is supplied.
Materials → Micro → Laminate.
03.5 / Workflow focus
Connected engineering recordPlate and beam response
Use the released CLT/FSDT finite-plate or membrane/beam path with compatible dimensions, loads and supports. Buckling, modal and static bending are distinct study choices.
Cylinder formulations
Thin-wall membrane and layerwise thick-wall elasticity have different load and process limits. Donnell axial buckling is a separate thin-shell study with an explicit knockdown factor.
Sections and joints
Layerwise sections, lap joints and sandwich bending have their own geometry and interfaces. The analytical Volkersen / Goland–Reissner study is a separate identical-adherend elastic approximation.
Failure and notches
The five existing criteria support eligible CLT first-ply / progressive calculations. LaRC04 linear-shear initiation and calibrated open-hole strength are separate studies, not additional progressive choices.
Fatigue
S–N models predict life from calibrated data. Residual stiffness / strength requires independently fitted retention laws in its separate study; neither automatically changes optimization properties.
Creep, shape and uncertainty
Reference-state studies explore time response, prescribed-eigenstrain free release and bounded ABD sampling. Their scope, inputs and output handoffs are listed below.
Keep validation data connected
Run the selected Simulation after relevant edits. Review model assumptions, stale-result warnings, convergence and calibration before interpreting the result.
Workbench availability: released models, inputs and compatible study paths. The wider theory library includes reference formulations not available in every Workbench solve.
Use this workflow in Workbench: interactive Blocks, record selections and connection controls →
Connected model layer
Design · released model connections
Select a model family to follow its inputs, results, theory and exercise. All model families ↗
Follow the connections
Heat, moisture & manufacturing
Material laws & boundary cycles
Laminate and prescribed temperatures, CTE and effective post-gel shrinkage
02 · Choose a model family
Transport & reaction
History & compatible process fields
Free-release CLT curvature and separate corner spring-in estimate; not an automatic process-history handoff
Tool-release shape
Free CLT release from prescribed ply-local shrinkage/thermal eigenstrains. Corner spring-in is a separate uniform-strain estimate. Stress-free temperature and effective post-gel shrinkage need calibration. No tool friction, cure kinetics or viscoelastic restraint history.
Model choices and Workbench location
Structural models → Tool-release shape
- Free-release eigenstrain & spring-in