Composite cylinder design software
CCDS is an advanced software tool
for design and analysis of both isotropic and anisotropic cylinders. CCDS
(formally WIND v5) can be used to to predict internal stresses, strains,
displacements and transient temperatures for laminated cylinders exposed
to a wide variety of process and loading conditions. It is currently used
as the primary design tool for composite over wrapped gun tubes for the
U.S. Army under the Center for Composite Materials CMT program as part
of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiative.
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The program itself, developed by Dr.
John Tierney, a research associate at the Center for Composite
Materials, is designed to be as generic as possible, thus allowing the
end user to explore many different materials, laminate configurations
loading and temperature conditions in a real time environment. IBHVG2,
the Army's interior ballistics for high velocity gun simulation, is also
embedded into the the latest version of CCDS. This allows the user to
design various gun tubes for various projectile and propellant systems.
The current CCDS software (v5.1) is available
for download at this password protected secure location download. Please check back
to this website for further upgrades.
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