Sometimes the best engineering solution, is not necessarily the most complex. If you can get 80% of the whole answer in 20% of the time then you are likely to be further ahead. This is the premise behind COMPRO 0-D and COMPRO 1-D. COMPRO 0-D/1-D are reduced feature versions of COMPRO which enable you to examine the evolution of material properties for simple geometry cases. Users require no experience in FE techniques or process modelling in order to get answers quickly.

COMPRO 0-D
Whereas COMPRO 2-D is the 'Virtual Autoclave', COMPRO 0-D is your 'Virtual DSC'or 'Virtual DMA' machine. COMPRO 0-D is a material property calculator which makes an ideal tool for material vendors to supply customers with cure kinetics and viscosity data for their materials.

Some example situations in which this tool is useful include:

  • A vacuum bag leaks during a process cycle. The engineer needs to know if the parts have gelled or not in order to make the decision to scrap, examine or accept the parts.
  • The target autoclave heating rate cannot be achieved due to overloading of the autoclave. The engineer needs to know if the required minimum viscosity has been reached.


Simplicity and efficiency is the key to COMPRO 0-D. Using a simple Windows interface, the user selects their material and cure cycle.

The user has the option of defining their own cure cycle, or alternatively importing process data from cycles which have already been run on your production equipment.

After running the model, the user can examine any of a number of material properties. COMPRO 0-D has built in plotting software for displaying the results or you may choose to export results to a text file for displaying in MS EXCEL or other post-processor.

COMPRO 1-D (coming soon)
COMPRO 0-D and 1-D use a common interface with the exception that more features are available for COMPRO 1-D. Whereas the 0-D solution examines material property evolution at a single point location, with COMPRO 1-D you can simulate a part cross section. By varying the laminate thickness and heat transfer boundary conditions, one can use this tool to quickly evaluate the severity of cure gradients and exotherms for any process cycle.