I think the most one is ABOQUS

ANSYS FE SOFTWARE YOU CAN USE.

Except for ANSYS which is a generic applicable tool, NASTRAN would be fine which is a finite element analysis (FEA) program that was originally developed for NASA analyses

The most appropriate software is ANSYS especially for modeling laminated composites

It dependent on which type of micromechanical behavior you want to look at. Are you interested at fiber/resin interface purely but at ply level?

As Christos said MSC Nastran is best solver for solving composites problem.

However Ansys is best for solving nonlinear problems.

FE micromechanics can be handled equally well by most general purpose  FE software like ABAQUS, Comsol, Ansys. But if you are looking for analytical micromechanics than probably you can use a simple tools like CADEC or MicMac etc. 

abaqus and digimat is appropriate

I think the most one is ABOQUS

ANSYS for composite laminate

Dear Sanjita Namata

it seems that there is no clear difference between softwares, most of them can be applied, however special features of them are different. for example ansys have a great APDL command environment which is appropriate for coding or abaqus is great as a result of good grouping of the commands. I believe that choosing the best software depends on the functionality you need. You can refer to the books of ever barbero to find some example for micromechanical analysis.

Best regards

Given that each component and its functionality will be different, ANSYS worked for me to analyze composite laminates (in my case 2-3 ply).. Material properties can be defined easily in it.

ANSYS is good for performing composite analysis.

In some cases it may failed if there are many plies of laminates.(ANSYS)

Dear Sanjita and all - if you are working with any 3D imaging data (CT, micro-CT...) in your composites modelling, then you may find my company Simpleware's software of interest - http://simpleware.com/industries/materials/composites/ - free trials are also available. Best, Philippe.

ANSYS and MATLAB are the good softwere for micromechanical of composite.

ANSYS

I agree that the MATLAB and the ANSYS are the best.

Thanx ,Noha Fouda

Thanx

I believe Digimat is the best for micromechanical analyses of composite, http://www.e-xstream.com/products/digimat/about-digimat, if I understood you correctly that you need to take into account the complex microstructures of composite.

Best regards,

Phu

Abaqus is a good software for modeling micromechanics of composite materials. It is a user-friendly software. You can find more details on the official website. Go through below link. It might be helpful. 

http://bobcat.nus.edu.sg:2080/v6.13/index.html

There are clear difference between difference software codes, when specialized to micromechanics analysis. We have completed a micromechanics simulation challenge among nine tools. The complete report can be found at https://cdmhub.org/resources/948. Results for various composites including fiber reinforced composites, particle reinforced composites, laminates, woven composites, short fiber composites from several readily available micromechanics simulation tools include MAC/GMC, MAC/HFGMC, FVDAM, MDS, DIGIMAT, SwiftComp, ESI VPS are compiled. The accuracy and efficiency of each tool are compared with 3D FEA of RVE with periodic boundary conditions using either ABAQUS or ANSYS.

All the model details and data can be found at https://cdmhub.org/members/project/mmsimulationchalleng/view

https://cdmhub.org/resources/948

SwiftComp is a general-purpose multiscale constitutive modeling code. When the final structural model is 3D, it actually becomes a micromechanics code. It has been demonstrated using many examples that SwiftComp can reproduce 3D FEA results with a small fraction of its computing cost. No boundary conditions are need. 3D properties can be computed out of 1D or 2D RVEs. The code can be freely launched in the cloud at https://cdmhub.org/resources/scstandard. It can also be used as plugins for ABAQUS or ANSYS. Must faster and easier to use than using ABAQUS or ANSYS directly for micromechanics. 

https://cdmhub.org/resources/scstandard

2 free pieces of software:

Elamx https://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_maschinenwesen/ilr/aero/download/laminatetheory/index_html

And FEA software code_aster http://web-code-aster.org/spip.php?rubrique2

If you need conventional constitutive equation for different phases, you can use digimat software, beside this, other software like Helius exist, for a brief list, refer to the book by Jacob Fish

Always best way is to write your own code. About software you can do it in any FEM based software like ANSYS, ABAQUS, etc.

Apart from numerical methods you can use analytical method as well. There are several analytical methods are available in literature like Mori Tanaka, Self Consistent, MOC, HFGMC, FVDAM, etc.

Thanks to all

Study of composite materials by understanding interaction between constituent

materials on a microscopic scale . Such an approach helps one theoretically compute material properties, thermal expansion coefficients and failure mechanisms of composites. You can use software: ansys and abacus.

-Jacob Aboudi . Micromechanical Analysis of Composites by the Method of CellsJuly 1989,Applied Mechanics Reviews 42(7).

- D. Chen, S. Cheng ,Analysis of Composite Materials: A Micromechanical Approach . Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Article Analysis of Composite Materials: A Micromechanical Approach

for the study of composite materials by understanding interaction between all the constituent on a microscopic scale you can use the Zebulon FEM based software