Manufacturing Best Practices
Holes, inserts, free edges and ply drops
Concentrated loads and geometric discontinuities need gradual load transfer and local containment of splitting and delamination.
In simple terms
Concentrated loads and geometric discontinuities need gradual load transfer and local containment of splitting and delamination.
Best for
Fasteners, inserts, hard points, thickness transitions and trimmed edges.
Watch out for
Surface woven or +/-45 degree plies may help containment but never replace bearing, bypass, pull-through and interlaminar analysis.
Typical applications
Bolted joints, potted inserts, brackets and panel edges.
Related tools
Use the calculators to turn these concepts into preliminary engineering estimates.