Hi Nixon, I studied some composites during my early days studying aeronautics while covering materials and material failure so ive some knowledge of the subject, plus i work for a carbon composites company now so its daily bread and butter with the basic stuff.
I'd be very interested in reading the thesis!
We supply a lot of uni's doing Formula Student over here in the UK, although most are still using the stock Formula steel chassis with only the higher end and better teams moving over to composite monococques.
The hard part for a lot of the poorer funded teams is to prove structural equivilency which is required for the competition both in mathematical calculations and FEA as well as often a practical test.
I will be doing most my CAD through solidworks as i have access to the package through work.
In dimensional terms for CAD, its the suspension pick up points and dimensonal extremities of the monococque that are important to me. I have no intention of 3d modelling the entire body panels of the car!!