Easy, process-centric, and user-friendly usage of Digimat technology from a fully integrated GUI guided environments for specific tasks.

Digimat Solutions

Accurate & Efficient Analysis of Reinforced Plastic Parts on an easy, fast and robust manner

Digimat-RP: The Leading Solution for Reinforced Plastic Parts Simulation!

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Digimat-RP is a Solution of Digimat software that integrates the right Digimat Tools and features to design Reinforced Plastics

Lightweight engineering re-designs metal parts into fiber reinforced plastics produced by injection molding. For reinforced plastics manufacturing procedures influence the material microstructure.

The effect of local fiber orientation leads to a distribution of material properties over the part. This can drastically influence its final performance and must be taken into account in the design procedures.

Digimat-RP (“Reinforced Plastics”) provides engineers with a guided simulation workflow tool that aids in the setup and streamlines the process of accurate analysis of plastic parts in a robust, fast and easy manner. It bridges the gap between injection molding and nonlinear FEA of plastic parts.

Digimat-RP simulation solution for Reinforced Plastics allows in a user friendly way to

  • Load finite element analyses of a broad range of different solvers
  • Assign a micromechanical material model to a specific part
  • Choose a robust & fast multi-scale simulation method for a coupled analysis
  • Map local microstructure information onto the part
  • Launch & monitor the coupled analysis
  • Access the results of the multi-scale simulation
Digimat-RP combines all the Digimat modules into a unique user-friendly interface. By following a logical workflow, the user can easily access the most important features of these Digimat modules to run a coupled analysis in a straightforward way. We are delighted that e-Xstream developed such a user-friendly interface which increases our efficiency without affecting the accuracy of analysis.
-Mattia Sulmoni, Dipl. Ing.Designer
DuPont

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Please visit the below pages for further information to find out which interfaces are supported in Digimat-RP :

Your next Innovative solution to optimize and control process quality

Digimat-AM is a solution of Digimat Software that simulates the printing process and helps printer manufacturers and end-users to identify manufacturing issues. It also optimizes printing parameters for productivity and final part performance prior to printing the first part. The use of numerical simulation allows you to turn hundreds of trials and errors into a couple of clicks in Digimat-AM.

Digimat -AM empowers engineers with a process simulation solution that helps:

  • Simulate the FFF, FDM, SLS and CFF processes of unfilled and reinforced materials
  • Predict the as-printed part warpage, residual stresses and process-induced microstructure
  • Analyze the coupled thermal-structural response of the process for unfilled and reinforced polymers
  • Set up the right manufacturing parameters for high precision printing and further bridge the gap between printing process, material and part performances.

Built upon our partnerships among the AM ecosystem, the software workflow follows the real printing process intuitively, allowing non FEA experts to fully benefit from our software solution.

Digimat-AM simulation solution for Additive Manufacturing allows in a user friendly way to:

  • Choose additive manufacturing process
  • Select the printer from a dedicated database with predefined parameters, or specify user-defined parameters
  • Load the part geometry in STL format
  • Load the slicing or toolpath definition
  • Select the material grade (reinforced or unfilled polymer) and the associated material model from Digimat-MX database
  • Create the voxel mesh of the part
  • Solve the thermo-mechanical or thermal finite element analysis simulating the printing process
  • Post-process and export the results of the process simulation (stress/strain fields, warped part shape, …)
  • Optimize the process

Supported AM Processes:

  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
  • Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
  • Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
  • Continuous Fiber Fabrication (CFF)

Integrated Solution to Compute Virtual Allowables. Winner of the 2015 JEC Innovation Award and ACE Award for Composite Excellence.

Digimat-VA: Your next innovative Solution for Virtual Allowables Computation!

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Digimat Virtual Allowables is a Solution of Digimat software that integrates the right Digimat Tools and features to predict the behavior of composite coupons

   

Digimat-VA (“Virtual Allowables”) is an efficient solution that empowers engineers to virtually compare materials before going into the lengthy physical allowables. By generating virtual allowables, engineers can now start the component design in parallel to the physical allowable campaign.

Digimat-VA is a vertical solution developed to virtually predict the behavior of composite coupons (unnotched, open hole, filled hole). It allows engineers to screen, select and compute the allowables of composite materials in less time and at less cost.

NIAR has been researching on virtual allowables development for past few years and was excited to see some of the methodologies are implemented in Digimat-VA in a user-friendly manner. NIAR and e-Xstream partnership brings the knowledge of decades of material allowables development and simulations to produce great tools such as Digimat-VA.
-Waruna Seneviratne, Sr Research Engineer
Wichita State University, NIAR

Digimat Virtual Allowables simulation Solution for Composite coupons allows in a user friendly way to:

  • Define test matrix in a few clicks
  • Create multiscale material models based on composite datasheet
  • Model batch and process variability
  • Go beyond recommended CMH17 procedures
  • Turn a test matrix into FEA runs to obtain virtual allowables
  • Evaluate effect of defect such as porosity, delamination, ply waviness and AFP gapsnon-li


The Digimat-VA workflow:

  • 1)Define the allowables test matrix for any combination of
    • Materials
    • Layups
    • Environment conditions
    • Type of coupon tests
      • UNT/C
      • OHT/C
      • FHT/C
  • 2)Prepare the virtual tests
    • Select a CFRP material from the database or calibrate a material model out from data sheet
    • Define material, process and testing variability
    • Create finite element models of the coupons
  • 3)Post-process results
    • Automatic extraction of stress-strain curve and strength
    • Automatic computation of mean, A-basis and B-basis
    • Visualization of damage field output on coupon mesh
  • 4)Generate a customized report


Digimat-VA is powered by a non-linear FEA solver coupled with Digimat multi-scale modeling

  • Non-linear finite element solver
  • Digimat micromechanical progressive failure modeling
  • Digimat micromechanical advanced progressive failure modeling based on Pr. Camanho’s work



Highlighted outputs: Progressive Failure, Laminate A-basis and B-basis

Progressive failure

Progressive failure lets you describe the progressive laminate stiffness degradation throughout time, as a result of applied loads. Progressive failure also provides the ultimate strength of structures even after failure initiation.


Laminate A-basis and B-basis

B-basis is the evaluation of the tenth percentile of a strength distribution with 95% level confidence. A-basis is the evaluation of the first percentile of a strength distribution with 95% level confidence.