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Please note that you have to make your choice of software from "FEA Software Choice" section located in the forum.

Apparently, there was a problem with the WebEx system during this morning's Monday session (May 4, 2009). Please be assured that the problem was not from your side (connection) and our side.

I have created a thread for a question raised by Yuval as follows:

Pranav,

Is the MD Nastran Stanford edition can be considered as a standard edition of MD Nastran?

For those interested in some typical properties of fabric (cloth), please refer to the tables in Appendix AC. The last two columns represent cloth properties......

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Dear all,
We have been receiving emails from the participants asking for the password to the regular Tuesday's sessions.

Mic-Mac (version 4.0) is available for download. Future releases with update(s) will be issued as versions 4.x.

Dear all,
The tutorial is commencing tomorrow (March 31, 2009). Please make sure that you have applied for a forum account so that you can avail all the features available in this forum.

A new MicMac is available for download. The updates are:
- Titanium properties added (in SI system only)
- In MicMac Shaft, the stress values for FPF is now non-zero (bug fixed).

There is an errata (typo) on page C-28 of book "Strength and Life of Composites", Example 13 on MicMac Shaft. The torque should be 0.05 MNm rather than 0.01MNm.

Some of us were having problem installing/running SuperMicMac+ (SMM+). In order for SMM+ to work with Excel 2007, some simple settings need to be updated in Excel.

A complete version of recording from session-7 (wrf) is now available for download along with the existing slides (pdf).

MICMAC-FEA (release version 0.1) is ready for download in the "download utility" section.

An updated version of MicMacv0.3 is ready for download in the download section. Please replace your existing MicMacv0.3 with this updated one.

Solve Assignment number 5, question#3 and win a copy of Ming Tsai’s cookbook , Simply Ming !(see assignment pdf for details)

Software Mic-Mac version 0.2 (Mic-Macv0.2.XLS) is now available in the download section.

Only applicable to the registrants of "Composite Design Tutorial-2":

Dear all,

Welcome to "Composites Design Tutorial" forum!