In conjunction with several universities and testing labs, the plastics industry has developed process modeling for long glass fiber injection molded composite plastic parts.
The technology may open the door to greater use of such materials in semi-structural automotive applications and other areas where strength and stiffness are critical.
“This will allow you to use plastics in places that companies have never thought of using plastics before,” said Marianne Morgan, automotive industry manager for engineering plastics for BASF Corp. Such long fiber applications are growing, but still limited today because of the necessity to develop tooling to produce prototypes of parts to assess the potential part’s mechanical properties.
The new process modeling, and the research data backing it up, will enable companies to bypass “the make it and break it” trial-and-error testing on plastic parts that would have delayed or inhibited the adoption of long glass fiber filled plastics for years, said Mike Wyzgoski, a consultant to the American Chemistry Council’s automotive team.
“I think all of the properties — the stiffness, the strength, the impact resistance and the toughness of the parts — will improve” with the use of long fibers, “because of the way the fibers are oriented,” Wyzgoski said in advance of his April 24 presentation on predictive engineering at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit.
Wyzgoski is a former research and development group leader at General Motors Corp. and former polymers group manager for Delphi Research.Stone Source offers a variety of Natural stonemosaic Tiles.
The process modeling is now available, in a drop-down menu, to product development engineers through the Moldflow simulation software from Autodesk Inc., for example.
Engineers can use data from the research to see how glass fibers are affected by the molding process, and how the molding will affect the finished part. That is critical information because the flow of long fibers is very different from the flow of short fibers through the gate and mold, Wyzgoski said.
With the software, toolmakers will be able to determine, for example, where to position the gate.
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“Stiffness and strength increase by a factor of two, and impact resistance by a factor of five to 10,” Wyzgoski said. “With fatigue or creep,The beddinges sofa bed slipcover is a good ， you could be looking at orders of magnitude of improvement of 1,000 to 10,000.”
That could open the door to replacement of short fiber composites in some applications, and metal replacement in others.
Mercedes, for example, already has a carbon fiber wheel rim.
Another European car-maker, Audi, plans to roll by the end of the year fiberglass-reinforced epoxy road springs for its electrically propelled Audi R8 e-tron model.Overview description of rapid tooling processes. The springs match the performance of steel coils for load-bearing, but are around 40 percent lighter. The core of the spring consists of long glass fibers twisted together and impregnated with epoxy resin. A machine wraps additional fibers around the core--which is only a few millimeters in diameter—at alternating angles of plus and minus 45° to the longitudinal axis.
The FRP suspension springs will also be introduced on some 2013 Audi midsize and large luxury models.
Some of the other potential automotive applications, Wyzgoski said, are front-end modules,Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. instrument panel retainers, sub-structural components and body panels, and car jacks.
“They can be used for many semi-structural applications and will help reduce weight as opposed to using metals,” he said.
In addition, Morgan said there is “a lot of focus to develop crash-absorbing automotive parts and crash-resistant seat structures” from such composites. They could also be used for battery trays in hybrid and electric vehicles, she said.
Beyond autos, such long fiber composites could be used in sports and recreation applications, casings for power tools and outdoor equipment such as lawn movers, farm equipment, tractor hoods on farm equipment, and seating and sub-structure applications in boating, Wyzgoski said.
“A lot of companies don’t want to build a tool because it is a pain,” “This allows you to do that predictive modeling on a computer and put in the needed geometries,” he said. “This is the key and the first step to properly predict the properties” of the potential application.
“The ability of automotive engineers to dependably predict the modulus, impact, strength, fatigue and stiffness of various-sized long glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastics depends on reliably modeling the fiber sizes, the fiber orientations and the relative fiber positioning with each part,” he said. “Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have validated that these three vital components can be predicted by process models for long glass fiber reinforced plastics.
The other long fiber research partners include Michigan State University, Virginia Tech, the University of Dayton Research Institute and the University of Illinois. The research was funded by the Department of Energy.
“Without knowing these three crucial components, we cannot move on to create models that predict mechanical performing modeling,” Wyzgoski said. “This allows accurate mechanical performance predictive modeling to occur for the first time” for long glass fibers in the plastics industry.
The technology may open the door to greater use of such materials in semi-structural automotive applications and other areas where strength and stiffness are critical.
“This will allow you to use plastics in places that companies have never thought of using plastics before,” said Marianne Morgan, automotive industry manager for engineering plastics for BASF Corp. Such long fiber applications are growing, but still limited today because of the necessity to develop tooling to produce prototypes of parts to assess the potential part’s mechanical properties.
The new process modeling, and the research data backing it up, will enable companies to bypass “the make it and break it” trial-and-error testing on plastic parts that would have delayed or inhibited the adoption of long glass fiber filled plastics for years, said Mike Wyzgoski, a consultant to the American Chemistry Council’s automotive team.
“I think all of the properties — the stiffness, the strength, the impact resistance and the toughness of the parts — will improve” with the use of long fibers, “because of the way the fibers are oriented,” Wyzgoski said in advance of his April 24 presentation on predictive engineering at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit.
Wyzgoski is a former research and development group leader at General Motors Corp. and former polymers group manager for Delphi Research.Stone Source offers a variety of Natural stonemosaic Tiles.
The process modeling is now available, in a drop-down menu, to product development engineers through the Moldflow simulation software from Autodesk Inc., for example.
Engineers can use data from the research to see how glass fibers are affected by the molding process, and how the molding will affect the finished part. That is critical information because the flow of long fibers is very different from the flow of short fibers through the gate and mold, Wyzgoski said.
With the software, toolmakers will be able to determine, for example, where to position the gate.
Long fiber composites offer improved properties compared to the short fiber composites,Dimensional Mailing magiccubes for Promotional Advertising, he said.
“Stiffness and strength increase by a factor of two, and impact resistance by a factor of five to 10,” Wyzgoski said. “With fatigue or creep,The beddinges sofa bed slipcover is a good ， you could be looking at orders of magnitude of improvement of 1,000 to 10,000.”
That could open the door to replacement of short fiber composites in some applications, and metal replacement in others.
Mercedes, for example, already has a carbon fiber wheel rim.
Another European car-maker, Audi, plans to roll by the end of the year fiberglass-reinforced epoxy road springs for its electrically propelled Audi R8 e-tron model.Overview description of rapid tooling processes. The springs match the performance of steel coils for load-bearing, but are around 40 percent lighter. The core of the spring consists of long glass fibers twisted together and impregnated with epoxy resin. A machine wraps additional fibers around the core--which is only a few millimeters in diameter—at alternating angles of plus and minus 45° to the longitudinal axis.
The FRP suspension springs will also be introduced on some 2013 Audi midsize and large luxury models.
Some of the other potential automotive applications, Wyzgoski said, are front-end modules,Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. instrument panel retainers, sub-structural components and body panels, and car jacks.
“They can be used for many semi-structural applications and will help reduce weight as opposed to using metals,” he said.
In addition, Morgan said there is “a lot of focus to develop crash-absorbing automotive parts and crash-resistant seat structures” from such composites. They could also be used for battery trays in hybrid and electric vehicles, she said.
Beyond autos, such long fiber composites could be used in sports and recreation applications, casings for power tools and outdoor equipment such as lawn movers, farm equipment, tractor hoods on farm equipment, and seating and sub-structure applications in boating, Wyzgoski said.
“A lot of companies don’t want to build a tool because it is a pain,” “This allows you to do that predictive modeling on a computer and put in the needed geometries,” he said. “This is the key and the first step to properly predict the properties” of the potential application.
“The ability of automotive engineers to dependably predict the modulus, impact, strength, fatigue and stiffness of various-sized long glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastics depends on reliably modeling the fiber sizes, the fiber orientations and the relative fiber positioning with each part,” he said. “Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have validated that these three vital components can be predicted by process models for long glass fiber reinforced plastics.
The other long fiber research partners include Michigan State University, Virginia Tech, the University of Dayton Research Institute and the University of Illinois. The research was funded by the Department of Energy.
“Without knowing these three crucial components, we cannot move on to create models that predict mechanical performing modeling,” Wyzgoski said. “This allows accurate mechanical performance predictive modeling to occur for the first time” for long glass fibers in the plastics industry.
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