Injection and compression molding of fiber reinforced thermoplastic materials are proven and efficient processes to produce lightweight parts for automotive applications. By adding continuous fiber reinforced composites or sheet metal, the possible range of applications can be greatly increased while retaining the advantages of the molding processes, cost efficiency and design flexibility. So called hybrids parts are used for more and more applications, especially in the automotive industry. The reinforcements are formed by the closing motion of the mold and the flow of the molding material. A novel approach is suggested using Abaqus/Explicit coupled eulerian lagrangian simulation to model combined forming and molding processes.
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