SimuPARTS
- Reference number
- PV08-0041
- Start and end dates
- 090101-111231
- Amount granted
- 0 SEK
- Administrative organization
- Halmstad University College
- Research area
- Other
Summary
By virtue of the rapidly increasing demand for environmentally friendly products, e.g. light-weight cars and other vehicles, the sheet metal producers and sheet metal working industry face exciting business opportunity potential in the coming decade. However, great challenges have to be overcome in order to realise this potential. The single most efficient way of accomplishing this is to rapidly increase the use of Virtual Manufacturing Engineering (VME) techniques. VME reduces • the number of physical tests, • die tryout, joining and pre-matching lead times • sub-assembly manufacturing engineering (by correlating forming simulations, die tryout, joining simulations, pre-matching, joining sequence optimization, and product attributes), and • improve the quality of the sub-assemblies /products. To accomplish a coherent VME on system level, a number scientific challenges is dealt with in SimuPart. The prediction accuracy of the forming simulations must be improved by use improved material models, friction models and robustness studies (material and process variation sensitivity analyses). Joining simulations will be established as a reliable tool. The joining process parameters must be predicted with good accuracy. The results of forming and joining simulations must be used in virtual pre-matching to predict the required changes in dies, the welding scheme and to match the required sub-assembly/product properties.
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