VABS

VABS is a software solution aimed at small to large companies in the aerospace and wind energy industries. According to the vendor, this approach to modeling composite blades and other slender structures (beams) achieves the accuracy of detailed 3D FEA with the efficiency of simple engineering models. The vendor claims that VABS significantly reduces analysis time and can accurately compute the complete set of beam sectional properties for structures with arbitrary cross-sectional shape and materials. Additionally, VABS is said to reproduce the accuracy of direct numerical simulation (DNS) using 3D FEA by explicitly modeling all the ply details of composite beams.