Fair Stuttgart / December 03, 2024 - December 05, 2024
Foam Expo Europe
Booth H1-250, a joint stand with the Fraunhofer ICT
Booth H1-250, a joint stand with the Fraunhofer ICT
Foam Expo Europe is one of the largest trade fairs in Europe for technical foams and their manufacturing processes. It offers visitors an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas across the entire supply chain. The trade fair enables them to get to know new technologies, partner companies and industry experts.
Our experts from the »Flow and Material Simulation« department will be on hand to discuss our latest research results. Among other things, we will be demonstrating our FOAM simulation tool for simulating the foaming and defoaming of PU foam components, as well as our FeelMath software for predicting thermomechanical foam properties. In addition, our head of the »Flow and Material Simulation« department, Dr. Konrad Steiner, will give a presentation on »Accelerating and Optimization of Foam Production Using Fast and Accurate Digital Prediction Tools« in the session »Lightweighting Complex Automotive Parts with Software-Assisted Foaming« on December 5.
The FOAM software simulates the manufacturing process of foams. It serves as a digital twin for foam foaming processes and is used in various applications such as shock absorbers, sound and heat insulation, and seat structures. FOAM offers a user-friendly interface, pre-processing tools for CAD data, automatic parameter identification from foaming experiments, and supports various foams. It enables the design and optimization of foam components and foaming tools, and the simulation of processes such as RIM-infiltration of foam. FOAM predicts complex mold-filling requirements, including venting, injector position and material quantities.
With the microstructure simulation technique, it is possible to calculate the effective mechanical, thermal and acoustic properties of foams. FeelMath is an extremely fast and easy-to-use analysis tool for calculating the effective mechanical and thermal properties of microstructures given by volume images (µCT) or analytical descriptions (foam models). With FeelMath, we can perform full-field simulations on representative elementary volumes of foams for different densities and pore sizes in order to obtain effective material models for the multiscale simulation of foam components.