Recent Developments in Multi-disciplinary Applications of Stamping Simulation

Abstract

Traditionally stamping simulation has focused on assessment of manufacturability at early product design phase and for process validation at the downstream phase. In the recent years, there has been an increasing trend towards expanding the scope of stamping simulation to integrate with other CAE domains such as structural CAE, composite materials, fatigue, safety, optimization, CFD, casting and lately 3D printing. The enablers are, highly streamlined graphical user interfaces for modeling and visualization combined with accurate, robust and scalable multi-physics solvers. In this talk, industrial case studies are presented on topography optimization and initialization of sheet metal parts with manufacturing results to improve structural stiffness, process optimization of complex stampings via highly scalable and accurate explicit analyses, topology optimization and manufacturability of stamping die structures, and thermo-forming of composite materials.