A Comprehensive Assessment of Commercial Process Simulation Software for Compression Moulding of Sheet Moulding Compound
A Comprehensive Assessment of Commercial Process Simulation Software for Compression Moulding of Sheet Moulding Compound
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片状模塑料压缩成型商用工艺仿真软件的综合评估
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2021
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K. Kendall
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C. Qian;A. Deshpande;M. Jesri;Richard A. Groves;N. Reynolds;K. Kendall
随着人们对碳纤维片材模塑复合材料(SMC)应用的兴趣与日俱增，人们开发了许多用于模拟SMC模压成型的商业软件。虽然这些程序包采用了不同的算法和网格划分策略，但其本构材料模型和工艺控制通常采用注塑成型过程模拟。文献中几乎没有对这些软件作为设计工具的能力进行评估，更重要的是，使用实验数据来验证工艺模拟结果。本文旨在对现有的SMC模压成型工艺模拟软件进行独立、全面的评价。选定的软件将在材料模型和可用的工艺设置方面进行比较，以确定它们作为压缩模塑设计工具的稳健性。该软件的预测准确性也将通过将压缩力和填充模式与实验数据进行比较来评估。
With a growing interest in the application of carbon fibre Sheet Moulding Compound (SMC), a number of commercial software packages have been developed for the simulation of compression moulding of SMC. While these packages adopt different algorithms and meshing strategies, the constitutive material model and processing control are usually adapted from injection moulding process simulation. Little has been done in the literature for assessing the capabilities of these software as design tools, and more importantly, validating the process simulation results using experimental data. This paper aims to provide an independent and comprehensive assessment of existing well-known process simulation software for SMC compression moulding. The selected software will be compared in terms of material models, and available processing settings in order to determine their robustness as a compression moulding design tool. The predictive accuracy of the software will also be assessed by comparing the compression force and filling patterns against the experimental data.