Simulations in Lightweight Construction

Lightweight construction is already used in a variety of ways today. In the automotive industry as well as in the construction, leisure and sports industries (e.g. sports shoe soles) and in the consumer sector (e.g. drill housings), fiber- and particle-reinforced plastics are increasingly replacing metals as materials. As both the materials and the design, joining and manufacturing processes are continuously being innovated and developed, goods with the same or even improved properties compared to the original product are created.

The prediction of the strength and damage behaviour of these components is complicated due to the directional dependence of the mechanical material behaviour, which is why elaborate multi-scale simulations are necessary for precise predictions. In order to reduce the high computational times, we develop model reduction methods that determine the effective material behavior, such as fatigue and damage, using microstructure simulations with FeelMath.