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C-MOLD Shrinkage & Warpage User's Guide
C-MOLD
ITHACA, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
Copyright © 1995, 1997 Advanced CAE Technology, Inc.
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Product Number: D-723
Version Number: 9780397
All computer simulations in this book employ C-MOLD software.
Preface
- Overview of C-MOLD
- Using this Manual
- Conventions and Symbols
- Typographic
- Command
- Before You Begin
- Assumptions about Using C-MOLD
- C-MOLD Products
- Interactive Software Products
- Design/Optimization Software Products
- Analysis Software Products
- C-MOLD Database
- C-MOLD QuickFill
- Dr. C-MOLD
- Documentation of C-MOLD Applications
Introduction
- Integrated Analysis
- Overview
- Objectives
- Features
- Background
- Residual Stress
- Structural Analysis
- Mechanisms of Shrinkage and Warpage
- Service Loading and Constraints
- Where to Find Further Information
Preparing the Design
- Overview
- Mesh, Service Loadings, and Constraints
- Specifying Mesh
- Specifying Service Loadings and Constraints
- Material Properties
- Specifying Material Properties
- Material Properties Specific to C-MOLD Shrinkage & Warpage
- Process Conditions
- Specifying Process Conditions
- Process Conditions for C-MOLD Integrated Shrinkage & Warpage
- Saving the Design
Executing the Analysis
- Procedures for Executing the Analysis
- Parameters
- Specifying Parameters
- The Parameter File
- Parameters Specific to C-MOLD Shrinkage & Warpage
Evaluating the Results
- Overview
- Output Data Sets
- Displacement
- Isolation of the Mechanisms of Shrinkage and Warpage, for Displacement Data
- Displacement Data Sets
- X-, Y-, Z-Displacement Data Sets
- Displacement Plot
- Best Fit: C-MOLD's Default Displacement Plot View
- Defining an Anchor Plane
- Plots for X-, Y-, Z-Displacement Data
- Inquiring Displacement and Distance
- Additional Displacement Data Set
- Stresses
- Tensor Plot of Stress Tensors
- Text Output Data Sets
- Output Files
Performing a Service Loading Analysis
- Overview
- Preparing the Design
- Specifying Mesh
- Specifying Service Loadings and Constraints
- Specifying Material Properties
- Saving the Design
- Executing the Analysis
- Evaluating the Results
- Output Files
Case Study Examples
- Example 1: Service Loading
- Geometry, Mesh, and Material
- Requirements
- Results and Discussion
- Example 2:
Shrinkage & Warpage, and Service Loading:
Post-Molding Analysis of a Fiber-Reinforced Part
- Results and Discussion
Shrinkage & Warpage Example Log File
Service Loading Example Log File
Numerical Model for Structural Analysis
- Finite-Element Model of Injection-Molded Parts
- Material Models
- Formulation of the Shell Finite Element
- Solution of the Set of Linear Algebraic Equations: Direct and Iterative Procedures
Determination of Constraints
- Separation of Mechanically Independent Substructures
- Application of Statically Determinate Constraints
- The Best Fit Transformation of the Results
Stress Calculation
- Bibliography
Load Calculation
Launching Analyses from the Keyboard
- Launch With Command-Line Arguments
- Create a Launch Execution File
- List of Analyses
Index
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