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Instructions

Fill out as many fields as you can. Enter properties in both SI and English units if you can. Incomplete data sets will be entered into the database depending on the amount of data for a given material, the quality of the data, and the number of other entries for the same material.

A complete set of stiffness properties is useful even without strength properties. A single property is useful if it is backed up with a lot of data (e.g. an A-basis tensile modulus). Typical-basis, incomplete data sets from the literature or from vendors probably won't be accepted unless there are no other entries for the same material.

You must include your name and contact information, plus a reference to the source of the data. Personal information won't be included in the database unless you give explicit permission, but I need to be able to contact you if necessary. One of the major goals of this project is to create a traceable set of material properties.

No proprietary data can be accepted--if it can't be posted for everyone to see, then don't submit it.

If you want to include a clickable logo in the database (instead of a plain text link to your Web site), please contact me directly at composite.guide@about.com.

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Variable definitions

Submission Form

Reinforcement:

Matrix:

Dataset Temperature:
Room Temp
F:
C:

Conditioning:
Dry
Wet

Material Form:
Unidirectional
Biaxial Fabric

Weave Style:
Other Fabric
Description:
Other
Description:

Material Type:
Prepreg
Wet Layup
Other

Description:

Data Quality:
A-basis
B-basis
S-basis
Typical
Vendor Datasheet
Other Statistical Basis (describe in Notes below)

Data:

Vf rho tply
E11 E22 G12 nu12
F1t F1c F2t F2c F6
a11 a22 b11 b22

Data Source:
Literature
Text or Reference Book
Vendor Data Sheet
Vendor Database
Company Database
Personal Database
Other

Description:

Notes:
Include here full references for the source of the data and any other comments you want to make (e.g. other statistical information, your experience using the data, etc.).

Personal Info:
Your name:

Your e-mail address:

Your Web site:

Other contact information:

Include my name and e-mail address in the database
Include my Web site in the database

 

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