Digimat-VA

Virtual allowable for composite laminates at your fingertips

Digimat-VA

Virtually predict coupons behaviour avoiding lengthy physical tests

Digimat VA

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Digimat-VA enables the user to virtually define a test campaign to characterise composite laminates while taking into account the material, process and testing related variability.


Revolutionise composites characterisation in our Digital Materials Laboratory

With Digimat-VA, the development of new composite structures realises substantial time and cost savings across the entire material characterisation process while simultaneously delivering innovative technology that will unleash the full potential of composite materials. The end-to-end solution allows you to generate a full virtual campaign of materials, layups, tests and environmental conditions and predict the virtual stiffness and strength of composite coupons.

Moving beyond the full test campaign, Digimat-VA also accounts for material, process and testing variability and effect of defects such as waviness, fibre tow gaps, porosity or delamination. The guided workflow ensures fast and accurate predictions of composite laminates, reducing lengthy physical testing campaigns through efficient virtual testing.

Value & Benefits: 

  • Access extensive libraries of material models, microstructures, physics and tests to create the digital twin of your physical campaign
  • Account for variability of the material, process and testing parameters while reducing the amount of experimental tests
  • Investigate effects of defects such as waviness, porosity, delamination or fibre tow gaps
  • Predict the virtual stiffness and strength of the composite laminate in just a few clicks

Key features:

  • An extensive range of available tests
    • unnotched
    • open hole
    • filled hole
    • double shear bearing
    • single shear bearing (1 or 2-piece, single or double fastener)
    • in-plane shear
    • 3 or 4 point bending
    • drop weight impact
    • tension or compression after impact
    • short-beam strength
    • curved-beam strength
    • double cantilever beam
    • calibrated end loaded split
    • end notched flexure
  • Accounting for variability
    • variability study of material, process and testing related parameters
    • parametric study of single parameters or full cross matrix
    • defect study of waviness, intraply and interply porosity, delamination, AFP gaps
  • Post-processing of the results
    • global and local post-processing
    • computation of virtual allowable
    • carpet plot
    • report generation
  • Highly efficient computation
    • internal or external Finite Element (FE) solvers supporting multiple CPUs
    • local or remote FEA job submission on Windows or Linux HPC machines