Providing a fully integrated system for enhanced productivity
and improved performance and safety.
Multiscale Design Systems
Providing a fully integrated system for enhanced productivity
and improved performance and safety.
MDS Applications
Our product lines are MDS-C and MDS-D (click here for more details).
Current applications of MDS-C include:
- life prediction and durability (fracture, fatigue) of structural components made of composites (fibrous, woven, braided), concrete, nanomaterials, or any other microstructure
- impact on structures made of the above materials with microstructures
The key application of the MDS-D line is to link continuum and discrete (atomistic) scales, primarily for nanotechnology applications.
Current Users
Seven organizations make use of our two products. These organizations include:
- Rolls-Royce Aerospace (CMC airfoil in the Joint Strike Fighter)
- Automotive Composites Consortium (polymer composites) consisting of GM, Ford, and Chrysler
- General Electric (polymer composites)
- Simulia (ABAQUS)
- Navy (sandwich structures)
- DOE (nanomaterials)
- AFRL (concrete)
Selected applications of MDS-C: (a) fatigue of tailcone (Rolls-Royce); (b) crash of composite tube (GM); (c) impact of steel/polyurea plates (Navy); (d) wrinkling of fibers in GE90 compression molding process; (e) and crack growth in metal-composite ships (Navy)