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• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• General Software
• Image Analysis
• Laminate Analysis
• Modelling Textiles including braid calculator
• Process Modelling (Filament winding and tapelaying)
• Process Modelling (Resin Transfer Moulding)
• Process Modelling (Thermoplastic Matrix Composites)

General software

• Adhesives Design Toolkit (National Physical Laboratory ).
• BMI3: Buckling Mode Interaction Program
• Composite Oracle^TM
• Composite Star 2.0 (free 30-day trial to download - "all-embracing composite design software and database for composite materials and structures")
• Fibreline Composites Calculation Program (registration required: electronic calculation of the load-carrying capacity of construction profiles for beams and columns)
• FiberSIM (integrated software for composite design and manufacturing)
• Laminate Tools (Design-Analysis-Check-Manufacture)
• Mechanical Engineering Calculations (MechEng Computing LLC)
• Simulayt (integrated design, analysis and manufacture of structures made from fibre reinforced materials)

Finite element Analysis (FEA)

• FEMstrutture
• LUSAS Composite
• Strand7

Image Analysis software

• DigitalSurf Mountain 6 (MountainsMap^® - 24 hour free trial)
• ImageJ freeware
• Simpleware Limited (30-day trial version)

Laminate Analysis

• ASCA/Windows: Automated System for Composite Analysis
• CADEC/Windows: Computer Aided Design Environment for Composites
• CLPT/JAVA: Classical Laminate Theory with JAVA
• CODA/Windows: Component Design Analysis
• Composite Cylinder Design Software
• CompositePro^TM
• ESAComp
• ESDU Composites/Fortran: Design of laminated plates subjected to in-plane loads and bending moments, ISBN 1 86246 000 0.
• HyperSizer
• Interactive Roarks Formulas: Composites (registration required)
      On-line laminate analysis program
• LAM3D: Three-dimensional laminate media analysis
• LAM3DNL: Three-dimensional non-linear laminate media analysis
• LAMONA: LAMinate Optimization Netting Analysis program
• LAP: Laminate Analysis Program/Windows
• PROMAL: Program for Micromechanical and Macromechanical Analysis of Laminates
• Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composites/Fortran
• The Laminator - Classical Analysis of Composite Laminates
• Think Composites Europe
• V-Lab: Virtual Laboratories for Composites Analysis
• WoodLab^TM PlyCalc^TM/Windows

Modelling Textiles

• Braid calculator (A&P Technology)
• TexGen: geometry of textiles at the unit cell level
• WiseTex: virtual textile composites software

Process Modelling (Filament Winding and Tape Laying)

• ACRAPLACE (off-line fiber placement programming system)
• CADfil (filament winding software)
• CADwind (filament winding software)
• ComposicaD (filament winding software)
• FiberGrafiX (filament winding pattern generation and optimization software)
• PatternMaster (software to develop and visualize filament-wound parts with 3D winding simulations)

Process Modelling (RTM)

• LIMS (Delaware)
• myRTM (IWK)
• PAM RTM (ESI-Group)
• RTMFLOT (Montreal)
• RTMWorx (NL) which developed from pi-7/SEPRAN (TNO Delft)

Process Modelling (Thermoplastic matrix composites)

• COMPROSOFT: Composites Processing Software