In the example of section IV.3.2, one illustrated basically how the composite classes and their methods can be used to calculate composite properties. The example involved the printing of matrices and vectors corresponding to material or laminate properties.
To write the ruby lines devoted to the printing or manipulation of composite entities can be tedious because it is a repetitive task. As for many users, the same composite results are often requested, this may justify the development of Modules or Classes devoted to the most common operations.
One illustrates in this section the extension of the composite classes and of its classes. All these examples are to be found in “TESTSAT/RUBY/EX13” directory.