Software eliminates bad design choices
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ESI Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 21, 2007
Pam-Quikform for Catia V5 was developed under the CAA V5 Gold Software Partnership Agreement signed with Dassault Systemes.
ESI Group has announced that Pam-Quikform for Catia V5 is now available.
It was developed under the CAA V5 Gold Software Partnership Agreement signed with Dassault Systemes.
Pam-Quikform is currently implemented in Catia V5 Composites Design, the composite design module developed by Dassault Systemes (DS).
The purpose of Pam-Quikform for Catia V5 is to enable decision making early in the design process, by eliminating bad design choices that could lead to manufacturing problems at a later stage.
"This new product from ESI Group will allow users to leverage Catia V5 Composites Design, which increases productivity by performing fibre simulations that are directly built upon the laminate definition in Catia", says Frederic Vacher, Manager of Partnership Business Development at Dassault Systemes.
"This additional CAA V5 product complementing the V5PLM composite portfolio will strongly benefit our PLM customers from the aerospace industry".
ESI Group's Pam-Quikform software is a simulation tool capable of predicting the deformation of the reinforcement of composite parts during manufacturing.
Pam-Quikform is based on geometrical methods and can tell, in a matter of seconds, if a selected material can be used to form a part without potential problems, such as wrinkling.
The flat pattern of the plies of the laminate are computed simultaneously and can be used for nesting and cutting machines.
"The integration of Pam-Quikform for Catia V5 is an example of the physics-based simulation brought by ESI Group that can be embedded in Catia V5 Composites Design in order to offer a complete solution that covers the design and the virtual manufacturing of composite parts".
"This kind of step should accelerate the current effort in aeronautics toward a simulation-based design", according to Patrick de Luca, Composites Centre of Excellence Manager at ESI Group.
Pam-Quikform enables the simulation of unidirectional composite deformation during the draping process.
The Pam-Quikform algorithms capture the specific deformation mechanisms occurring in unidirectional draping, such as intra-ply sliding, or the spreading of the fibres.
The benefits resulting from the integration of Pam-Quikform in Catia V5 Composites Design are important and numerous.
The simulations can be directly performed based on the laminate definition built in Catia V5 Composites Design, dramatically increasing productivity.
All the existing Catia V5 Composites Design options are available, including flattening and 2D/3D transfer, and they are exportable to digital manufacturing machines such as an automatic laser pointer or nesting and cutting programs available in CAA V5.
Pam-Quikform for Catia V5 integration follows the integration of resin-transfer moulding and infusion simulation in CAA V5.
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