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SUMMARY:TexGen - Open-Source Software for Geometric Modelling of Textile S
 tructures - Louise Brown - University of Nottingham
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CONTACT:Jack Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:Composite materials are increasingly used in a wide range of a
 pplications\, particularly in the aerospace and automotive industries whic
 h take advantage of their low weight and high strength. They comprise a re
 inforcement embedded in a matrix material which may be made up from many c
 ombinations of materials. In the field of polymer composites the materials
  are typically either a glass or carbon fibre reinforcement in a polymer m
 atrix. In many cases the reinforcements are produced in the form of textil
 es which gives ease of handling but also\, in the case of more complex 3D 
 weaves\, gives the opportunity to enhance the properties of the material a
 nd to design specific shapes. Computer simulation for prediction of materi
 al and processing properties requires accurate models of the textile struc
 tures. TexGen is cross-platform open-source software\, developed at the Un
 iversity of Nottingham as a pre-processor for the creation of 3D geometric
  models of textiles. The software was initially released as open source in
  2006 and has a world-wide user base.\n\nDr Louise Brown has been the main
  developer of TexGen since 2009\, including 5 years of funding as an EPSRC
  Research Software Engineering Fellow. She now holds an academic post in t
 he department of Mechanical\, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at t
 he University of Nottingham. This talk will outline the development of the
  TexGen project and the types of mechanical and manufacturing properties w
 hich can be simulated using the models. It will also consider the developm
 ent of such code in the context of an RSE career and discuss the issues su
 rrounding the long-term maintenance and funding of such a research code.\n
 \nHybrid Zoom details will be emailed to the RSE mailing list\; if you are
  not on the list\, please contact the organisers.
LOCATION:JJ Thomson Seminar Room\, Maxwell Centre
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