| Our VE team and our mission | general presentation |
| Injection molding | flow, spiral flow, imbalanced flow, weld line, pressure, shrinkage/warpage, porosity, buckling, fiber orientation (anisotropy, model parameters, ...), thermal hesitation, mold cooling, validation approach, fiber breakage, moldflow&moldex, undercut demolding, thin parts, PVT data, micro-injection molding ... |
| insert overmolding | Thermal shock, core shift, 2K molding (workflow), "adhesion" and tightness (TP on TP, TP on metal), heating (Joule effect), residual stresses, warpage, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion, ... |
| Electrical | PDIV, EMI, Slot liners in e-motors, piezoelectricity (macroscopic), dielectric constant of CF/GF compounds (+moisture), dielectric constant and loss factor for bilayered structures, Joule heating, skin&proximity effect in busbars, ... |
| Fluid dynamics | introduction, electrostatic spray coating, polymer extrusion of Solef (rheological model&validation), visco-elasticity (melt), ... |
| Thermal | simulation capabilities, conductivity with special fillers, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion, ... |
| NVH | visco-elasticity, vibration, acoustic, Model identification,Non material damping |
| High speed (impact...) | model identification & validation |
| short-term (mechanical) predictions | stiffness and strength, water-freezing, intrinsic stiffness of compounds |
| Long-term (mechanical) predictions | creep, fatigue |
| mechanical instability (buckling) | pipe reeling (buckling/permanent deformation), liner collapsing, slot liner insertion, ... |
| Anisotropic prediction for fiber reinforced polymers (Digimat) | digimat suites, anisotropy, database, model identification (TEP), introduction of a weld line strength knock down factor, validation, application to really thin parts, ... |
| Long fibers thermoplastics | mechanical behavior (calibration, validation) and in-mold fiber breakage analysis in MOLDFLOW (sensitivity study), ... |
| Single-screw modeling (extrusion) | capabilities of Compuplast, ... |
| 3D print | FFF |
| Gas permeability | of multi-layer structures (CheFem), ... |
| Topology optimization | example with validation |
| Friction & wear | very limited contribution (so far) |
| Systems | gears (introduction to design and FEA challenges; wear height prediction; relation between processing and mechanical simulations), compressors, screws, e-motors, ... |
