Comfor • Composite forming simulation
Composite forming simulation,
built in the open.
An open-source finite element platform for composite forming. Physics you can audit, modify, and publish with.
// documentation
Where do you want to go?
Download
Precompiled binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS
02Quick Start
Run your first simulation in minutes
03Tutorial
Step-by-step examples from basic to advanced cases
04User Manual
Full reference — preprocessing, solving, and post-processing
05Theory
Continuum mechanics, composites, and solver formulations
06FAQ
Common questions and troubleshooting tips
// why comfor
Composite Forming is complex.
Your solver should stay transparent.
Comfor is an open-source explicit FEM solver designed for composite manufacturing research, where constitutive models, input files, and solver choices remain inspectable and reproducible.
Constitutive models are documented and linked to their source publications.
Dry forming, thermostamping and RTM are treated as native use cases.
Inputs, material parameters and solver settings can be versioned, shared and audited.
// simulation capabilities
What Comfor can simulate
A modular explicit FEM solver purpose-built for composite manufacturing. Each capability is backed by peer-reviewed constitutive models — no empirical shortcuts.
Manufacturing processes
Dry forming, thermostamping, draping, RTM, filament winding. Explicit non-linear FEM handles large deformations and transient dynamics throughout the forming cycle.
Composite material models
Woven fabrics, UD and NCF composites, anisotropic textile constitutive models, viscoplastic matrices. Every constitutive model links directly to its source publication.
Results & visualization
Stresses, displacements, fiber orientations, shear angles, and contact forces. Full ParaView integration for interactive post-processing and animation.
// dual licensing
Two editions.
One codebase.
Open by default for research and education. Commercial licensing available for industrial use without open-source constraints.
./community
Community
Free and open source
For students, labs, individuals.
- Full source code access
- Standard FEM toolkit
- Community support & public docs
- Open source license (AGPL)
./enterprise
Enterprise
Commercial license
For industrial R&D teams.
- Professional support & industrial deployment
- Priority technical assistance
- Advanced modules & custom workflows
- IP confidentiality protected
- Eligible for French CIR (R&D tax credit)
// research partners
Built on a decade of peer-reviewed research in collaboration with
Comfor is developed at Innovamics in collaboration with academic partners. Results are published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international composites conferences.
Comfor Documentation
by Eduardo Guzman
is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.