TruPly is a design optimisation software product specifically developed for the design of minimum mass composite structures, coupled to the Industry Standard FEA solver, SIMULIA Abaqus. This innovative tool provides the first product on the market able to evolve the most efficient ply shapes within the Abaqus solver environment.
Several competitors exist in the field of the structural optimisation of composites, including Altair’s OptiStruct and VR&D’s Genesis, neither of which however are able to support the Abaqus solver community effectively.
TruPly is fundamentally added as an extension to Abaqus, enabling users who work with composite design and analysis to develop the most efficient components without compromise on performance. Composites have become more accessible in various industries due to the falling cost of manufacture, and although composite behaviour remains a relatively unexplored field, TruPly enables users to find the best possible layup from an infinite variation of different orientations across strength, stiffness and buckling load-cases.
