Modelling and predicting the durability of reinforced plastic components is highly complex and challenging. This is why e-Xstream engineering – a world leader in multi-scale modeling of composite materials and structures – and Royal DSM – a global science-based company and global supplier of high-performance engineering thermoplastic solutions – have decided to join forces and combine their efforts to enable use of a new methodology and workflow within the Digimat platform.
The combination of DSM’s high-performance thermoplastic solution and modelling approach of fatigue failure mechanisms, and e-Xstream’s accurate and convenient numerical tools, will give users the opportunity to access an improved fatigue modeling methodology within Digimat. The approach has been developed and validated on DSM grades to empower durability prediction of reinforced plastic components.
Within this partnership, DSM has added two grades in Digimat-MX:
• The Akulon® S223-HG0, a 50% Glass Reinforced and Heat Stabilized PA66 material that is used by its customers in applications ranging from automotive, electronics & electrical, to furniture and packaging. In molded parts, the material offers an excellent balance of easy design and processing with outstanding mechanical properties over a wide temperature range and in diverse conditions.
• The ForTii® Ace MX53T, a 50% Glass Reinforced and breakthrough high temperature PPA for demanding structural applications in various industries, such as aluminum die-cast replacement of enclosures (EPS, actuators, sensors), brackets and covers in the automotive industry. This grade has an extreme chemical resistance, suitable for applications that need high mechanics at elevated temperatures. ForTii Ace MX53T enables an extreme robust part performance over a temperature range from -35°C up to 150°C.
The Akulon® S223-HG0 and ForTii® Ace MX53T which are used in injection modeling will be available for high cycle fatigue analysis. Customers will be free to handle the main DSM grades to obtain the structural design and characteristics they want.
