DESIGN and DEVELOPMENTAL COMPUTER PROGRAMME for 2D-FEM APEG - USA MODULE

Application content:
Virtual Extrusion Laboratory™

• How to define the extruder
• Sheet - Basic Info, Barrel, Screw, Material, Friction coefficients, Temperatures sheet, Pressure - exit
• Geometry creating
• Barrier Screw
• The melting capacity increasing
• Notes on the calculated end pressure value during solution
• How to define the screw sections (Section length, Barrier Screw etc.)
• Existing geometry optimization
• Geometry creating – nodes
• Geometry creating – outline boundaries
• Notes to the material assignment
• FEM grid generating
• Testing geometry
• Project definition - Linked geometry
• Project definition – Material
• Project definition – Iterations
• Notes on the solution conditions
• Project solution
• Result visualization and screw (geometry) analysis
• Graphic results
• Results viewing
• How to get the best results
• The notes to the shear stress problem and the FEM grid density
• Adding the super-element - taking a control of the FEM division at the critical locations
• FEM grid generating
• Project redefinition - linking with the super-element geometry
• Field
• Create/edit pathline grid
• Cut
• Drawn Output - project definition
• Coextrusion of two materials
• Results