LUSAS Composite contains a comprehensive range of unrivalled engineering analysis facilities to cater for all types of composite design. From simple failure prediction using a number of failure criteria including Tsai-Hill, Hoffman and Tsai-Wu through to advanced delamination failure modelling, LUSAS Composite will help shorten your design and checking times giving reliable results every time.

Comprehensive nonlinear analysis

LUSAS Composite has superior nonlinear problem solving capabilities.

  • Powerful facilities for geometric, material and boundary nonlinearity are available for problems involving large deformations, plasticity and collapse.
  • Fully automatic load incrementation, automatic recovery from convergence failure and restart features are all designed to enable newcomers to nonlinear analysis to quickly become proficient in solving a wide variety of nonlinear problems.
  • Results processing facilities provide automatic load-displacement graphs and viewing of yielded material.