Moldex3D Composite Molding

Unleashing Composite Molding Potential

Moldex3D provides various realistic 3D simulation solutions for the composite molding process, such as short fiber injection molding, long fiber injection molding, SMC/BMC/GMT/D-LFT compression molding, various RTM (Vacuum RTM, High Pressure RTM, Wet RTM) and Hybrid molding, etc.

Our Services

Fiber Orientation Prediction
■ Visualize fiber orientation, length, and concentration inside fiber-reinforced plastics.
■ Evaluate the filler effect to mechanical properties and final shrinkage
■ Optimize process conditions to enhance the part strength.
■ Support short, long, flat fiber and flake orientation simulation.

Resin Transfer Molding
■ Predict resin flow behavior through anisotropic porous media.
■ Decide appropriate fabric materials, and optimize process conditions.
■ Control resin infusion by pressure or flow rate.
■ Capture cure reaction trend during molding through viscosity and kinetics models.

SMC/BMC/GMT/D-LFT Compression Molding
■ Visualize dynamic melt flow advancement during compression molding process.
■ Evaluate chopped fiber orientation prediction, compression force response and anisotropic warpage result for SMC/BMC/GMT/D-LFT compression molding.
■ Predict Potential molding defects, such as flashing.

Material Characterization
■ Evaluate the variation of temperature and curing kinetics for reactive material.
■ Evaluate viscoelastic properties, chemical shrinkage and thermal expansion effect for different components.
■ Validate the characteristics of fiber permeability.

FEA Interface/Micromechanics Interface
■ Integrated with industrial leading structural software, including ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, Marc, NASTRAN, and RADIOSS.
■ Export Fiber and Stress analysis results to calculate further structural performance.
■ Validate the structural performance of products and mold sustainability.

Moldex3D Digimat-RP
■ Bridge manufacturing process and FEA analysis.
■ Predict the mechanical behaviors with nonlinear material modeling technology for reinforced plastic.
■ Define material properties and criteria of failure properties for reinforced plastic.
■ Support automatic reverse engineering for material model generation based on experiment data.

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Moldex3D Material Research Center has the best in class equipment to help customers obtain the most reliable
and precise material data.