MSC Software Corporation

Overview:
Digimat provides L&L Products with state of the art simulation methods which aid engineers in product development. The key advantage provided by Digimat coupled to Radioss and other CAE software is a drastic predictability improvement for glass filled polyamide materials. With an improved predictability, optimal and robust lightweight design is possible in the future.

• To move towards greener technology by replacing classical metal design by composite structures
• To use the outstanding performance of composite materials whilst tackling all additional difficulties arising from the injection molding process
• High quality prediction of impact on a short fiber reinforced stiffener beam

• Strain rate dependent micromechanical material model for AKULON K224 HG7 supplied by DSM
• Mapping of MOLDFLOW fiber orientations onto the structural mesh
• Solution of a nonlinear multi-scale analysis with DIGIMAT coupled to RADIOSS

"The key advantage provided by DIGIMAT coupled to Radioss and other CAE software is a drastic predictivity improvement for glass filled polyamide materials. With an improved predictivity, optimal and robust lightweight design is possible in the future." F. Braymand, Simulation Manager at L&L Products

• Excellent correlation on the force-­-displacement curve with experiment
• Excellent correlation on the failure location compared to experiment
• Drastic improvement of predictivity enables robust and lightweight design focusing on cost efficiency based on advanced DIGIMAT CAE technology