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This paper presents several modeling techniques for simulating and optimizing aluminum bottle forming using Abaqus/Explicit. Designing and tuning sheet-metal forming tools for aluminum bottles are quite complicated and time consuming tasks. These tasks must take into consideration a number of potential issues, such as the success rate of forming, bottle shape smoothness, bottle load capacity, sheet-metal over-thinning, and metal wrinkling. To shorten the design cycle and reduce the number of forming tool prototypes for the Coke Contour aluminum bottle, simulations with Abaqus served as virtual test grounds to provide valuable insight into the bottle’s complex forming processes.

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General Motors, in conjunction with SIMULIA Great Lakes, have developed a studio of Abaqus/CAE plug-ins designed to increase the efficiency of their analysts in the definition of their model assemblies. These plug-in are written to bridge the gaps and to enhance the usability of native tools in Abaqus/CAE specifically for bolt joint assembly simulation. The main advantage of the plug-in studio is improved efficiency, both in terms of time saving and modeling accuracy/consistency. Secondary benefits include the ability to enable less experienced users leverage the complex modeling methods encapsulated by each plug-in. This paper presents a few of the developed plug-ins, describing for each the process captured. One of these tools, the ‘bolt library’ is available to the wider Abaqus user community.

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The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ is developing an inert 40mm sensor grenade which houses an array of sensors and electronic components. This grenade is intended to be fired from a hand held launcher and relay sensory information back to the user. To accomplish this task, the internal electronic components must be structurally housed and guarded from impact induced g-levels. Also, radio transmitting components within the grenade require unimpeded ability to transmit RF signal, thus prohibiting the use of conductive metallic materials in the grenade’s design. These unique design requirements create significant challenges for engineers developing the projectile.

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This study concerns simulation of the forming process of a carton-based package for liquid food (for example, milk or juice), and how the packaging material interacts with the fluid during the forming. The carton-based package is formed inside a filling machine while the fluid is being filled into the package. The carton-based package is thin with low bending stiffness and is thus deformed significantly at small loading. This implies that the forming of the package to a large extent depends on the dynamics of the fluid inside the package.

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In this study, detailed motion capture data of real facial movement was interpreted to produce a finite element model (node and element definitions) along with a time history of nodal displacements. The finite element data was stored as an Abaqus output database and subsequently used as a global model to drive a similar facial submodel to evaluate the fit and sealing performance of a pouch style face mask design under realistic use conditions. This paper outlines the analysis approach and shows results from the simulation.

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From a structural point of view, corrugated board would fit on the category of sandwich structures, which in sectors as aeronautics or construction are today commonly analysed using simulation tools that are based on the Finite Element Method. However, in spite of similarities to applications in other materials, FEM simulation of corrugated board is a high challenging modelling task due not only to the need of addressing properly the complex mechanical modelling of paper itself, but also because of phenomena that are directly related to the corrugated structure, as the relationships between local and global instability failure modes. The present paper, through a set of application examples, shows how different Abaqus modelling capabilities can be applied for solving the different difficulties that arise when modelling corrugated board.

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This paper aims to investigate the train-induced ground vibration and appropriate countermeasures using numerical modeling by Abaqus. First, the effect of appropriate boundary modeling in wave propagation studies is addressed by illustrating the application of nonreflecting boundaries in Abaqus using infinite elements. Second, the propagation of waves in the ground was investigated by applying an impact-type loading. Then, the attenuation of maximum acceleration on the surface ground was compared to the data from geotechnical centrifuge tests conducted at Tokyo Institute of Technology and the theoretical solutions. These comparisons confirmed the reliability of the numerical modeling by Abaqus in this study.

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Powertrain (MPT) is constantly exploring new ways to improve the efficiency and performance of engines to meet the demanding objectives Automotive OEM’s are faced with today, i.e. to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. MPT’s key expertise lies in the development of high performance engines with low emissions and excellent fuel economy through the optimisation of gas exchange, combustion, friction and durability.

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The present work will concentrate on the gear fatigue of automotive power transmission systems. Especially the strength of the bevel gears of the differential transmission has important influence on the durability of the whole transmission system. Therefore the bevel gears and pinions are made of hardened high strength steel. As an example the lecture shows a strength- and durability analysis of a differential gear. An accurate Finite Element Model is employed to provide a quantitative understanding of gear tooth contact behaviour under load. A rolling and sliding contact simulation between the bevel gears is performed to get the resulting stress distribution using the commercial Finite Element Analysis software Abaqus.

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The automotive and heavy-duty industries are heavy users of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) for development, design and performance optimization of their products. As a technology driven company, the Sealing Products Group of Dana Holding Corporation utilizes this technology extensively, especially for metal cylinder head gaskets (CHG) and exhaust gaskets, so called Multi-Layer-Steel (MLS) gaskets. This paper provides an overview on accelerated simulation performance studies utilizing the latest SIMULIA technology for advanced sealing application from the Sealing Products Group of Dana Holding Corp. Furthermore it provides an outlook of steps to come.

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Brembo S.p.A produces mainly braking systems and components for automotive market. Actually, Brembo organization and business are quite complex due to the geographic dimension (Brembo is present in several countries worldwide both with manufacturing and engineering sites) , to the market dimension (Brembo produces for passengers cars, commercial vehicle, motorcycles, racing cars, OE, Aftermarket, etc...), and finally to the customers dimension; infact Brembo designs the braking system on specific customer and car.

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