• Date：May 25, 2016 - May 26, 2016
• Location： Budapest, Hungary

CoreTech System (Moldex3D) would like to invite you to the first in history Users’ Meeting for Eastern Europe! The event will take place in the last week of May in the beautiful city of Budapest. Rich in history, cut into Buda and Pest by the Danube river and surrounded by hills, this architectural pearl of Eastern Europe will be our location for this special event.

The first day of the Users’ Meeting will be dedicated to the newly released Moldex3D version R14, and in the afternoon session we will welcome our partners and users to share their success stories. You will have a great chance to meet professionals from the injection molding field and share your story with other Moldex3D users. The main focus will be the recent release of Moldex3D Professional Package; with BLM technology. The highlight of the event will be our star speaker Tober Sun with his insight into the future of injection molding. He will also introduce our brand new Certificate system for Moldex3D users and specialists.

On the second day of the event, we will welcome our users to share their stories. Also in the afternoon you will have the opportunity to take part in our hands on workshop on Designer BLM 2.0 – the superior technology for creating the 「Boundary Layer Mesh」.

The event is free of charge so make sure you book those dates and be there with us! Register below now. Guests are advised to book their own accommodation.

Language of the presentations

English

Cost

The event is free of charge – register now!

Agenda

Day 1: May 25th, 2016

Day 2: May 26th, 2016

*The agenda is a subject to change.

Our featured speakers

Zoltan Major
Head of the Institute of Polymer Product Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria

Born in Karcag, Hungary in 1961, he received his Master degree in mechanical engineering and material technologies at the University of Miskolc in Hungary in 1986. In 1994 he joined to the Institute of Materials Science and Testing of Plastics (IWPK) at the Montanuniversität Leoben and to the Institute of Polymer Engineering at Johanneum Research in Austria, where he received his PhD degree on the field of Polymer Science and Engineering in 2002. From 2002 until 2008 he was assistant at IWPK, senior and key researcher at the Polymer Competence Center Leoben (PCCL). Since 2009 he is the head of the Institute of Polymer Product Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria (IPPE JKU).

His interests are in the research fields of fracture mechanics and micromechanics of advanced polymeric materials. He has an intensive collaboration both with many industry partners and scientific institutions on the field of design and dimensioning of advanced polymer components for engineering applications. He is also a member of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) and founder and secretary of ESIS Austria. Moldex3D user since 2015.

Presentation abstract:
Short fiber reinforced (sfrp) injection molded polymers are widely used in many applications where advanced thermo-mechanical properties as well as high quality mass production are demanded. While for modeling and simulating homogeneous polymeric materials the influence of the degree of load multiaxiality, strain rate and temperature dependence has to be carefully examined in order to reliably predict the deformation and failure behavior, for heterogeneous discontinuous fiber reinforced materials, the in-plane fiber orientation and the possibility of layer formation poses significant additional complexity. To overcome these difficulties an integrative simulation methodology was developed which consists of the following three main steps:
(1) the injection molding (IM) simulation
(2) the microstructure simulation using the MFH approach with the FPGF model and finally
(3) the macroscopic finite element (FE) simulation.

The IM simulation using Moldex3D provides the local fiber orientation for each element in terms of a second order orientation tensor. These fiber orientations were mapped to the finite element mesh. The global stiffness of sfrp model components was successfully predicted by applying the MFH approach along with proper experimental techniques. The MFH model together with FPGF model was implemented into the FE simulation as a user material model using the DigimatCAE software tool. Thus, the macroscopic FE simulation on component level can successfully be extended and was carried out accounting for the local material behavior based on the local fiber orientation. The FPGF model provides a local failure indicator for each element considering the local fiber orientation and the local stress state of the component.

Boris Jezeršek
Development & Technology, Kolektor Group

Education: University of Ljubljana, Faculty Of Mechanical Engineering. Graduated in 1991. ertified Engineer since 1993.
1991 – 1996 EGO Group (ETA Cerkno) technology support
1996 – 1999 EBM Papst (Ydria Motors) R&D engineer
1999 – 　　　KOLEKTOR R&D senior engineer

Presentation abstract:
Today, the design of the components is pushed down the supply line, with specifications framed in dynamic and life-time domain. In face of global competition, each supplier needs to increase its capabilities towards direct support for design and manufacturing process. Dealing with FRP components adds additional complexity, due-to its anisotropic and non-linear properties.

Presentation will focus on key aspects of Moldex3D implementation process in the company. Why the specific software was implemented and how the software usage has evolved since 2005. Software applications on parts from production will be presented and discussed.

Radoslaw Szmid
CAE Analyst MS Progress

With over 10 years of working experience in the automotive industry Mr. Szmid is currently responsible for product development and structural analysis. He is the main injection simulation specialist in the consulting firm MS Progress. With the aid of Moldex3D Professional Package he deals with the everyday design and production issues.

In his presentation, he is going to share three interesting case studies, where Moldex3D helped to verify the mold and part design, troubleshoot and reduce the parts warpage, axial bending and flatness issues. Mr. Szmid has many years of experience working with simulation software and he will also share his experience with other tools and how Moldex3D is winning with the competition.

Philippe Hebert
Application Engineer and Product Manager at e-Xstream engineering SA

He earnined his Master degree from UCL (Belgium) and Ecole Centrale Paris (France). He specializes in composite modeling and application of multiscale material models to finite element analysis.

Presentation abstract:
Reinforced plastics are increasingly being used in multiple industries (automotive, electronics, consumer goods, …) as a replacement to metal solutions. Reinforced plastics indeed offer an increased flexibility for design, ease of processing as well as lightweighting capabilities. However, they also bring a series of technical challenges: reinforced plastics behavior is usually highly non-linear, anisotropic, temperature/strain rate dependent and most importantly process dependent.

Early design of reinforced plastic parts has classically faced many difficulties: process information such as fiber orientation might not be available yet, many iterations of design are required in a very short cycle time, material behavior is hardly accessible. These challenges add up to the common difficulty of designing plastic parts with metal based design tools, considering homogeneous isotropic material behaviour.

The presentation will demonstrate how Digimat can help to overcome those challenges to accelerate early design of plastic parts in combination with Moldex3D technology.

Venue

NOVOTEL BUDAPEST DANUBE
33-34., Bem rakpart, 1027 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

Registration

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