INTEGRATIVE SIMULATION: PREDICTION OF MECHANICAL PARTS PROPERTIES BASED ON THE SIMULATION OF LOCAL INNER PARTS PROPERTIES

摘要

Inner parts properties strongly affect the global mechanical behavior of molded semi-crystalline parts. During the last years an IKV research group tried to bridge the gap between simulation of inner properties and structural analysis. By a self-developed software to simulate inner properties arising during injection molding and programmed subroutines for Abaqus a so-called integrative simulation was realized. Results of this simulation chain will be presented and discussed focusing on a plastics pipe fitting made out of polypropylene.