APA EDU Solution for Short-Fiber-

Reinforced Materials in FEA

Sascha Pazour

PART Engineering GmbH

March 7th 2016

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Agenda

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• Company Introduction

• What is Converse

• Key Features and Workflow

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PART Engineering – Key Facts

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Cologne

Berlin

Frankfurt

Hamburg

Stuttgart

Munich

Wolfsburg

Ingolstadt

Rüsselsheim

• Focus on structural mechanics

• Mission is to provide CAE services and software in order

to add value to our customers‘ CAE chain

• 20 years experience in FEA

• 10 years experience in CAE software development

• Development partner of major CAE software vendorsBergisch

Gladbach

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Agenda

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• Company Introduction

• What is Converse

• Key Features and Workflow

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What is Converse

• Converse imports results of injection molding simulation

(fibres, weldlines, warpage, pressure, temperature)

• Converse translates these results into usable data for

structural simulation:

material properties, deformations, loads (e.g. cores)

• Converse exports these data solely in specific solver syntax

thus enhancing existing FE-models

• Converse works completely offline and is not required

during runtime of simulation.

• Converse provides an anisotropic material database

for common fibre reinforced polymers.

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Agenda

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• Company Introduction

• What is Converse

• Key Features and Workflow

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Key Mapping Capabilities

Injection Molding

Solver

Mechanical Solver

- Moldex3D

- Moldflow

- Cadmould

- Sigma

- Fluent

- Simpoe

- 3D Timon

- OptiStruct

- Abaqus

- Ansys

- Nastran

- Marc

- Femfat

- nCode

Fiber Orientation

Pressures

Temperatures

Residual Stresses

Shrinkage & Warpage

Weld Lines

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Influence of Fiber Orientation on Mechanical Material Properties

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Stiffness* Tensile Strength* Fatigue Strength@N=10E6**

in flow cross flow

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rma

lize

dP

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y V

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e [

%]

* PA6+GF30 **PA6T/6I+GF50

melt

in flow

cross flow

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Converse Material Database

- Increasing with every new release

- Already more than 100 existing materials for SFR Plastics

Durethan ®

Ultramid®

Grivory®

Zytel®

Radilon ®

Fortron®

Fortron®

Grilamid®

Pocan®

Technyl®

Ultradur®

Vestamid ®

Celanex®

Akulon®

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Import FE-Models

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Moldex3D OptiStruct

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Import Results of Injection Moulding Simulation

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Fiber Orientation

Boundary Layer

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Map Results

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Transferred

Fiber Data

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Assign Material

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Export Solver File

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Example: Fibers and Weld Lines

Isotropic Anisotropic