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March 10, 2025 | by Datapoint Newsletters | views 138
Applus+ DatapointLabs marks 30th anniversary; latest research; 2025 events
Plastics Foams Composites Research Papers Newsletters Quality
March 03, 2025 | by DatapointLabs | views 212
The accurate calibration of materials models is crucial for simulating the behavior of materials across various industries, including automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods. With the increasing complexity of modern materials, particularly polymers, foams, and composite materials, developing reliable and efficient calibration strategies is more important than ever. This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of calibration strategies for material models applied to these materials, focusing on the challenges and best practices for each material class.
September 26, 2024 | by DatapointLabs | views 639
Our presentation, “Beyond Standards: Material Testing and Processing for Successful Simulations of Polymeric Materials (LAW76)”, focuses on the Semi-Analytical Model for Polymers (SAMP), a material law developed for simulating complex polymer behavior in industries like automotive and aerospace. SAMP integrates strain-rate dependencies and a damage model for accurate predictions in crash and impact scenarios but faces limitations like slow convergence and the absence of a damage model that incorporates strain-rate and triaxiality dependencies. We emphasize the need to go beyond standardized testing, advocating for tailored tests that better reflect real-world conditions, such as varying strain rates, geometries, and environmental factors. This presentation also details a semi-automated calibration process for SAMP and BIQUAD models using iterative workflows to optimize simulation accuracy for tension, compression, shear, and impact tests. Ultimately, SAMP’s flexibility and predictive accuracy make it a powerful tool, but its successful implementation requires advanced knowledge, customized testing, and careful calibration to ensure stability and reliability in material simulations.
Plastics Yielding/Failure Analysis Altair RADIOSS Presentations Validation
April 29, 2024 | by Datapoint Newsletters | views 1417
Successful accreditation audits; company growth; technical conferences
Thermal Mechanical Plastics Metals Aerospace and Defense Automotive Composites Newsletters Quality
April 17, 2024 | by DatapointLabs | views 1961
Thermoplastic composites present a promising opportunity for innovation within the automotive sector, owing to their lightweight properties, durability, and recyclability. Our efforts concentrate on testing and developing models to accurately simulate the behavior of materials in automotive settings. By delivering precise simulation models, we empower manufacturers to gain deeper insights into the performance of these materials, thereby streamlining their incorporation into vehicle design and manufacturing workflows. This advancement ensures the effective utilization of thermoplastic composites, resulting in tangible advantages such as improved fuel efficiency, enhanced safety, and reduced environmental footprint across the automotive industry.
July 11, 2023 | by Pablo Cruz | views 1352
This paper describes an engineering process to generate material cards for forefront crashworthiness CAE analysis that properly capture both plastic and fracture behaviour of car body structural metals. The main objective of the paper is to show that advanced plasticity approaches can be used without significantly increasing the complexity of the overall material characterization process. The paper is mainly centred in metals plastic characterization for shell elements although some important relationships with the fracture characterization will be also discussed.
May 22, 2023 | by Datapoint Newsletters | views 2141
DatapointLabs Founders Retire; Company Continues Focus on Materials in Simulation
May 15, 2023 | by DatapointLabs | views 1887
Simulations play a crucial role in engineering and material science, and their success heavily relies on the accuracy of input data. Material testing, data conversion, fitting, and formatting are essential steps in the simulation process. This conference will highlight the importance of material testing requirements that extend beyond ISO and ASTM standards to obtain reliable data for input into various common material models, such as Elastic-Plastic, Hyperelastic, and Rate Dependent models. The complexity of foam materials is shown through a case study of successful validation of polyurethane (PU) foam ball drop impact test using LAW 90. PU foams exhibit high deformation with rate dependency in compressive loading, as well as viscoelastic unloading behavior. Proper handling of input test data and critical settings in simulation setup are crucial for accurate results. The case study will showcase our streamlined approach to successful simulation of foam materials, including challenges and limitations of current material models.
Mechanical Foams Hyperelastic Rate Dependency Altair RADIOSS Validation
October 24, 2022 | by Datapoint Newsletters | views 2370
DatapointLabs Invests in New Testing Capabilities, Expands Market Reach
Thermal Mechanical Aerospace and Defense Biomedical Electonics/Electrical Composites Newsletters
September 22, 2022 | by DatapointLabs | views 1786
Material characterization considerations for SIGMASOFT simulations using thermoplastic and thermoset materials.
Rheology Thermal Mechanical Plastics Rubbers Injection Molding SIGMASOFT
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