• Date：Jun 10, 2018 - Jun 12, 2018
• Location： Edward Hotel & Convention Center - Dearborn, MI
• Booth Number：203
• Official Website：https://www.ls-dynaconferences.com/

Join Us at the LS-DYNA Conference 2018

Explore Cutting-edge CAE Technologies for Advanced Composites Manufacturing

CoreTech System (Moldex3D) will be attending, speaking and exhibiting at Booth #203 at the 15th LS-DYNA® International Conference & Users Meeting, Jun 10-12, 2018 at the Edward Hotel & Convention Center in Dearborn, MI. The conference is a great opportunity to share and exchange experience, knowledge and best practice for deploying LS-DYNA to simulate and solve real-world problems and challenges various industries face today.

Come and visit Moldex3D at Booth#203 to learn more about Moldex3D’s innovative simulation technologies designed to address challenges of composites manufacturing. At Moldex3D’s booth, attendees will have the chance to engage with our simulation experts and see a live demo of integrated simulation solutions available from Moldex3D and LS-DYNA, and get answers to all your questions about composites simulation to increase confidence in composites design and manufacturing simulation. If you are interested in attending this event and would like to speak to us please complete the form and we will be in touch.

Agenda at a glance: https://www.ls-dynaconferences.com/2018/2018TentativeAgenda.pdf

Attend Moldex3D’s Speaking Session 

Three -Dimensional Integrated Simulation for Composite Sheet Compression Molding

Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 

Time: 8:50 a.m. 

Location: Bugatti Royale (2nd floor), Edward Hotel & Convention Center, Dearborn, Michigan, USA

Session description:

Sheet molded composite (SMC) or glass-mat-reinforced thermoplastic (GMT) material is widely used in the automotive industry with the compression molding process to achieve a higher residual length of the glass strands. In this work, an integrated simulation procedure is developed for SMC/GMT composite compression process. First, LS-DYNA is used to conduct the draping analysis to predict the deformed shape of the initial charge before compression. The deformed shape and other data is then exported to Moldex3D to do the compression molding analysis to get the final part shape and fiber orientation. Both simple and real parts are analyzed to demonstrate that developed integrated simulation is a cost-effective analysis tool for sheet composite manufacturing.