Enable the use of mass produced composites parts, creating composites parts manufacturable with fully automated manufacturing process

Composites Braiding & Forming Engineer

• Industrialize composites part accounting for the high quality standard of the composites industry

• Produce best in class composites outputs for downstream manufacturing processes including tooling preparation for braiding and forming

• Accelerate the production rate and enhance the quality of composites parts using advanced automated manufacturing process

Benefits

For composites parts manufactured with a braiding process:

• Accelerate the design of composites parts

  • By simulating the braiding manufacturing process

  • Editable associative parts with GSD tools

• Reduce design cycle & manufacturing costs while meeting mechanical requirements

  • Automatically optimize mandrel speed to achieve improved fiber angles

• Verify the conformity of the part with the mechanical requirements

  • By predicting the continuous variability of fiber angles, coverage and material thicknesses around the cross section and along the part

• Provide an integrated and efficient process

  • Link between calculation and manufacturing tool

• Generate the ideal mandrel shape for a braiding process

  • Accurate automatic mandrel shape generation without physical prototyping

  • Mandrel file export for braiding machine

For composites parts manufactured with a forming process:

• Accelerates the development of Composites parts made by forming by validating the manufacturing process of parametrized and associative parts editable with GSD tools

• Usable by designers new to composites by automating simulations and predicting composite material behavior during manufacture

• Highlights geometrical features leading to manufacturing problems like wrinkling

• Supports multiple material types to facilitate comparison

• Provides unmatched integration with downstream structural analysis

• Fully integrated in 3DEXPERIENCE, providing an extremely efficient workflow for part improvement

Highlights

For composites parts manufactured with a braiding process:

• Ply modeling tools based on associative 3D features

• Optimized braiding machine parameters and Material parameters to meet mechanical requirements

• Advanced Braiding Producibility Analysis

  • Prediction and visualization of fiber paths on complex surfaces using an advanced simulation environment.

  • Mesh parameters control during simulation for more accuracy

  • Several Braiding Producibility Analysis tool (deviation, coverage, thickness, concavity, …) with analysis result control

• Accurate automatic mandrel shape generation without physical prototyping

• Mesh parameters control during mandrel shape generation

For composites parts manufactured with a forming process:

• Ply modeling tools based on associative 3D features

• Dedicated forming material parameters for directional (e.g. woven fabrics, biaxial NCFs) and general (isotropic, orthotropic) materials

• Quick producibility simulation of the whole stack of plies, minimizing the overall deformation in each ply to reflect sliding allowed during forming

• Clear presentation of the forming simulation results:

  • Deformation and deviation in each ply

  • Sliding at the interfaces between plies

• Instantaneous calculation of the corresponding blank shapes, providing an excellent starting point for the estimation of material quantities and the preparation of detailed simulation model