Imulation of polymer forming processes - addressing industrial needs

Journal Article · Wed May 04 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3589596· OSTI ID:21516776

Thibault, F; DiRaddo, R ^[1]

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1. Industrial Materials Institute-National Research Council (Canada)

The objective of this paper is to present the development of simulation and design optimization capabilities, for polymer forming processes, in the context of addressing industrial needs. Accomplishments generated from close to twenty years of research in this field, at the National Research Council (NRC), are presented. Polymer forming processes such as extrusion blow moulding, stretch blow moulding and thermoforming have been the focus of the work, yet the research is extendable to similar polymer forming operations such as micro-blow moulding, sheet blow moulding and composites stamping. The research considers material models, process sequence integration and design optimization, derivative processes and 3D finite elements with multi-body contact.

• OSTI ID: 21516776
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1353; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
CALCULATION METHODS
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
DEFORMATION
DESIGN
EXTRUSION
FABRICATION
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MATERIALS WORKING
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
MOLDING
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
OPTIMIZATION
PERMEABILITY
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
POLYMERS
SHEETS
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS