Title: MATERIAL POINT METHOD AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO FEM FOR FAST FORMING SIMULATION OF FABRIC COMPOSITES

Authors: Amir Nazemi, Milad Ramezankhani, Marian Kӧrber, Abbas S. Milani

DOI: 10.33599/nasampe/s.23.0211

Abstract: High formability is known to be one of the key advantages of woven fabric composites, making them prevalent in many industrial applications to manufacture products with complex 3D shapes. In parallel, attempts are underway by different researchers to automate such forming processes under the emerging Industry 4.0 paradigm. However, there are different types of defects, including wrinkling, that often occur during fabric forming and handling; and thereby for an Industry 4.0 realization, the process variables need to be optimized nearly in real-time. Accordingly, this requires very fast yet reliable numerical simulation tools to predict the defects and be used as part of the digital twinning of the process, where conventional tools like finite element models frequently fall short due to their high computational time. This study investigates the potential application of a material point method (MPM) for rapid simulation of fabric composites’ forming. Both stability and computational efficiency of the method, along with its limitations, have been compared to a finite element model via a hemisphere forming case study.

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Conference: SAMPE 2023

Publication Date: 2023/04/17

SKU: TP23-0000000211

Pages: 14

Price: $28.00