What are the advantages of DYNAFAB?
1. With DYNAFAB, all it takes is a few clicks of the mouse and less than a minute to completely set up a high quality FE mesh of a textile fabric. 2. No expensive third party CAD or preprocessing software licenses are required. If any modifications are required, they can be easily done in LS-DYNAs freely available preprocessor LSPrePost. 3. The users can choose from numerous custom equations to input their own cross-sections and undulating centerlines in order to develop or test new architectures. 4. DYNAFAB is highly customizable in terms of geometry / architecture. Different mesh schemes allow the user to create coincident nodes at yarn / tow cross-over locations. 5. DYNAFAB leads to enormous savings in both time and money for the industry, especially since highly qualified and paid scientisits and researchers do not need to spend large amounts of their time creating or modifying the FE models, and can instead focus their efforts on capturing the physics of the simulation.
