Key features
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Material card creation
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Validation of manufacturability
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Optimization of gripper, clamping, and sequential forming setups
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Support of tool design
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Prediction of local fiber orientation and fiber volume content
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Thermomechanical-thermokinetical analysis for thermoforming
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Supported technologies: Thermoforming, textile forming, membrane forming, and hot forming
Compression molding
Key features
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Material card creation
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Validation of manufacturability
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Prediction of filling behavior, required press forces, and required temperatures
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Prediction of the pre-forming of complex initial charge configurations
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Prediction of the local fiber orientation
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Supported material classes: SMC, LFT, and GMT
Composite warpage
Key features
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Validation of dimensional stability
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Prediction of process-induced deformations (warpage, spring-in)
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Prediction of solidification and residual stresses
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Prediction of crystallization (thermoplastics), and curing (thermosets)
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Consideration of local state variables from process simulation (fiber orientation, temperature, degree of crystallinity/cure)
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Prediction of local stresses after assembly
Structural analysis (FEA)
Key features
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Validation of load requirements
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Consideration of manufacturing effects (e.g. local fiber orientation)
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Prediction of component stiffness and failure