The Laminate Analysis Program can be used to analyse any type of composite laminate subjected to in-plane loads and moments. The flat laminate has no fixed size apart from its thickness, so that the analysis can be applied to any composite component, at a location where loadings or deformations are known.
Typically, the software is used in preliminary design for tailoring a stacking sequence, then analysing the composite component with other methods such as finite elements, and finally optimising the design by inspecting the laminate behaviour layer by layer.
LAP consists of four modules. The Basic module includes the linear analysis functionality and constitutes the minimum configuration. The other three modules (Non-Linear, Design, Additional Failure Criteria) are optional.
