Laminate in multiscale designer for a injeccion mold material

Juan Torres

Hello, 

My doubt is that, if I want to analyze the mechanical properties of a piece that is made of a multiscale material of polymer reinfoced with short fieber, done by injection molding in inspire mold. 

Thanks to the injection mold i have the fiber orientation tensor file, because the orientatión is random in this manufacturing process, so when i am making the material in the multiscale designer and i put the injection molding laminate, this factor will affect the tensión analysis in HyperWorks?

How i understand if i import the fiber orientation tensor and the files generated by multiscale to hyperworks it will calculate the stresses depending of the orientation in each element defined by the fiber orientator tensor file. So i don´t know if the injection molding laminate can affect to this analysis.

Can someone solve me this doubt please?

 

Adriano A. Koga

Hi @Juan Torres 

 

There is a very interesting series of composites webinars that you may want to take a look, specially #3.

This one covers your questions.

https://web.altair.com/composites-webinars

 

But as a summary, yes, the orientation of your fibers in the design will affect the material behavior, and it should be taken into account in your simulation.

As you already have the simulation done in InspireMold (hopefully you have used a material with fibers), you can use this orientation tensor to map in HyperMesh the orientation tensors.

Take a look at the video in the webinar #3.

Juan Torres

Thanks you so much, now i understand how it works!