Efficient Workflow for the Simulation of Plastics in the Medical Industry
The strength assessment of plastic components is often a problem in practice. It is important for the beneficial application of simulation to achieve a good trade-off between the simplest possible modeling approaches (material model, strength assessment) and sufficient fidelity of the simulation results. If non-standardized simulation and assessment approaches are used, or experience-based, subjective procedures are employed, uncertainties follow and the comparability of different analyses is often not possible. Therefore, a workflow of Altair and partner software is shown to avoid such uncertainties and two examples from medical industry are used to display the benefits. Simplified procedures help to reduce the work load and increases the confidence in simulation results. The standardized procedure avoids mistakes and assures that reproducibility and comparability of the results is always given.
Presenter: Sascha Pazour, Engineer, PART Engineering GmbH
Featuring S-Life Plastics, available through the Altair Partner Alliance
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How to Avoid Oversized Plastic Parts and Wrong Material Choices in the Design Phase
Lightweight design often is all about replacing metal parts with plastics. Simulation tools are useful to avoid oversized parts and verify its physical integrity early in the development process. But to do it right, influences of the manufacturing process and the right material choice are essential. During this webinar, this process will be outlined for an injection molded short-fiber-reinforced plastic part. The effects of weld lines, fiber orientation, temperature and more, on the part's strength cannot be ignored. How such influences are easily considered will be shown in this webinar.
Presenter: Sascha Pazour | Engineer, PART Engineering GmbH
Featuring Converse and S-Life Plastics by PART Engineering, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
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Design High-Quality Plastic Components Faster Using S-Life Plastics
An Introductory webinar to S-Life Plastics by PART Engineering, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
S-Life-Plastics is an easy-to-use software that conducts a short-term, long-term and fatigue strength assessment based on FEA results for plastic components made out of unreinforced or reinforced thermoplastic materials.
In order to conduct a strength assessment S-Life Plastics only needs the local stress tensor, provided by the appropriate result file of the particular FE solver. Additionally the user has to enter some basic information about the material and loading conditions. With that S-Life Plastics provides the resulting static and cyclic utilization ratios as contour plots. For every individual node a comprehensive numerical report of the most important assessment variables can be requested for documentation purposes.
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The Future of Plastics Simulation
Wolfgang Korte from PART Engineering, an APA partner, discusses the future of plastics simulation.
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S-Life Plastics Product Datasheet
S-Life-Plastics is an easy-to-use software that conducts a short-term, long-term and fatigue strength assessment based on FEA results for plastic components made out of unreinforced or reinforced thermoplastic materials.
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