MSC.SuperForm in Short Overview

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MSC.SuperFormin Short Overview
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Simulation Of Bulk Forming Manufacturing
Processes

• Forging
• Extrusion
• Axial Rolling
• Ring Rolling
• Cogging
• Bending
• Cutting

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Why Simulation

• Reduce Time to Market
• Reduce Cost of Tool Development
• Predict Influence of Process Parameters
• Reduce Productions Cost
• Improve Product Quality
• Better Understanding of Material Behavior
• Reduce Material Waste

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Manufacturing Results

• Accurately predict the material flow
• Determine degree of filling of the swage or die
• Accurate assessment of net shape
• Predict if laps or other defects exist
• Determine the stresses, temperatures, and
  residual stresses in the work piece.
• Determine optimal shape of preform

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Material Behavior

• Determine material properties such as grain size
• Determine local hardness
• Predict material damage
• Predict phase changes and composition
• Simulate the influence of material selection

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Tool Results

• Determine the forming loads
• Determine the stresses in the tools
• Evaluate tool wear or fatigue
• Simulate the influence of lubrication
• Optimize multi-tool process

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Simulation allows you to capture behavior that
can not be readily measured providing deeper
insight into your manufacturing processes
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WIZARDS for Ease of Use
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Intuitive GUI
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Intuitive GUI
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Powerful CAD Interfaces

• IGES
• AutoCad - DXF
• VDA-FS
• STL
• ACIS
• SDRC

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Flexible Process Control

• Multi-Stage
• Kinematic Presses
• Crack press
• Eccentric Press
• General Press
• Hydraulic Presses
• Hammer Presses
• Rolling
• Spring Applied Tools
• Axially Segmented Tools

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Flexible Process Control

• Axito3d
• Prestate
• Spin Forming
• Anneal
• Sequence Option
• Trimming
• Piercing and Cutting
• Structural Analysis directly based upon the
  manufactured state

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Kinematics

• Placing the workpiece
• Closing the tools
• Forming process
• Removal of the tools
• Extraction of the workpiece
• Including spring-back
• Subsequent cool-down

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Flexible Tool Definition

• Rigid Tools
• Deformable
• Direct CAD NURB Description

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Material Data

• Material Data via Supplied Data Base
• Data Base may be Customized
• Material dependent upon
• True strain
• Temperature
• Strain Rate

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Material Models

• Elastic Plastic
• Rigid Plastic
• Material Database
• Isotropic hardening
• Cowper-Symonds

• Power Laws
• Johnson-Cook
• Kumar
• Grain Size Prediction
• Phase Changes

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Effects of Elasticity

• Elasticity of Tools
• Prestressed Dies
• Residual Stresses
• Behavior of part during ejection or removal
• Determination of tolerances

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Damage Models

• Principal Stress
• Cockroft-Latham
• Lemaitre

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Lubrication Model

• Shear Based
• Coulomb
• User

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Visualization

• Tracking of Material Particles
• Flow Line Images
• Time History of Tool Forces
• Deformation of Workpiece
• Contour Plots of all Quantities

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Some Examples2-D Lap Formation
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Multi-Stage
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Connecting Rod
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Orbital Forming
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Ring Rolling
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Cogging
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Cutting
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Riveting
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Proven Finite Element Technology

• Isothermal
• Coupled Analyses
• Elastic Plastic
• Rigid Plastic Behavior
• Planar
• Axisymmetric
• Three Dimensional

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Element Technology

• Quadrilateral
• Triangular
• Hexahedral
• Tetrahedral

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Contact

• Fully Automated
• Easy to Define Workpiece and Tools
• Rigid or Deformable Tools
• Multiple Friction Models
• Heat Generated due to Friction

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Remeshing Technology

• Fully Automated
• Improves Accuracy
• Reduces Costs
• Based on Material Deformation
• Based on Die Geometries

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Remeshing Technology

• Advancing Front ( Quadrilateral and Triangular)
• Overlay ( Quadrilateral and Hexahedral)
• Delaunay ( Triangular and Tetrahedral)

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Solutions for Your Enterprise

• Easy to Learn
• Programming User Interface
• Procedure Language
• Individual Customization of GUI
• Available on NT , Unix, Linux
• Computationally Efficient
• Enterprise Specific Solutions
• World Wide Support

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