Mesoscale simulation of the mold filling process of Sheet Molding Compound
Author: Meyer, Nils
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3731511738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sheet Molding Compounds (SMC) are discontinuous fiber reinforced composites that are widely applied due to their ability to realize composite parts with long fibers at low cost. A novel Direct Bundle Simulation (DBS) method is proposed in this work to enable a direct simulation at component scale utilizing the observation that fiber bundles often remain in a bundled configuration during SMC compression molding.