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Digital Engineering April 2026
In the latest issue of Digital Engineering, we take a look at the latest innovations in design for additive manufacturing, including the use of natural language inputs, social media cosplayers, and AI integration. The issue also includes a feature…
January Special Focus Issue: Design for Additive
In this Special Focus Issue of Digital Engineering, learn about the latest advancements in design for additive manufacturing, including new software tools, additive in automotive, custom medical devices, and more.
Purdue University has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help users develop composite materials and structures without needing in-depth technical jargon or knowledge.
AnalySwift LLC, a composite simulation software provider, has partnered with Purdue University researchers to create CompositesAI. CEO Allan Wood explains that it helps users more quickly create and analyze composite products designed with other AnalySwift software solutions.
Designers and engineers can use the free platform at CompositesAI.com.
AnalySwift partnered with Wenbin Yu on the CompositesAI project. Yu is the Milton Clauser Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue’s College of Engineering and AnalySwift’s chief technology officer.
“AI is rapidly transforming many aspects of our life and will play a major role in advancing composites’ design and manufacturing,” Yu says. “We are working to stay on the leading edge of these developments by launching CompositesAI, aimed at consolidating and delivering composites expert knowledge using AI.”
The CompositesAI project focused on four objectives:
Yu says CompositesAI is initially focused on rotor blades for air mobility, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, drones and wind turbines, but its uses will expand.
“It will soon be able to handle other composite structures such as plates, shells, panels and other 3D structures utilized by engineers in designing the next generation of aerospace, defense, energy, medical and sporting goods applications,” he says. “Once fully developed, CompositesAI will be capable of handling all aspects of composites with the precision of validated engineering software and authority of world-leading experts.”
AnalySwift has partnered with Indiana-based Applied Research Institute, an economic development organization whose innovation voucher program provided matching funding to further the objectives of the partnership with Purdue.
AnalySwift licenses some of its innovations through the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization.
AnalySwift LLC is a provider of composite simulation software. Contact AnalySwift at [email protected].
The Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization operates a technology transfer program. Services provided by this office support the economic development initiatives of Purdue University and benefit the university’s academic activities through commercializing, licensing and protecting Purdue intellectual property. Contact [email protected] for more information.
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