Asahi Kasei Launches Cloud-Based CAE Solution for Polymer Impact Prediction

Prediction of material behaviour Asahi Kasei Engineering launches cloud-based CAE solution platform

2024-09-09 Source: Asahi Kasei 1 min Reading Time

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Technology company Asahi Kasei Engineering (AEC) has launched a cloud-based CAE solution platform, offering highly precise apps to predict crash and impact behaviour of polymers.

By focusing on these crazes, “I-Lupe” accurately predicts and reproduces possible resulting fractures in the polymer.(Source: Asahi Kasei) — By focusing on these crazes, “I-Lupe” accurately predicts and reproduces possible resulting fractures in the polymer.
(Source: Asahi Kasei)

As the adoption of polymer materials in automobiles and other products increases, precise simulation of material behaviour will contribute to enhanced product design and to significantly reduced costs and time for material and application development. In recent years, cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) is being increasingly used throughout various industries. As a result, the on-demand use of computer aided engineering (CAE) software installed in cloud HPC as software as a service is also becoming more common in the material development process. As a manufacturer of technical polymers, Asahi Kasei has provided comprehensive, high precision support for its customers’ product design and development through CAE technical service focused on engineering plastics. Leveraging this expertise, AEC, a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei, further extends its CAE-related service by launching the cloud-based “CAE Solution Platform”, offering various apps that can be easily downloaded and used by customers worldwide.

The apps offered on the platform include the downloadable and highly accurate polymer material fracture prediction model “I-Lupe.” Microscopically, amorphous polymer materials have a structure in which molecular chains are intricately entangled. When an impact or other force is applied to this material causing significant deformation, the molecular chains are stretched, resulting in the formation of voids and fibrils (bundles of molecular chains). When these so-called crazes grow, the polymer material fractures. By focusing on these crazes, “I-Lupe” accurately predicts and reproduces possible resulting fractures in the polymer.

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Conceptual diagram of the CAE solution platform(Source: Asahi Kasei)

Fig.3 Conceptual diagram of the mapping tool for I-Lupe(Source: Asahi Kasei)

As a supporting app to “I-Lupe”, the CAE solution platform offers an on-demand mapping tool specifically focused on anisotropic materials such as fiber-reinforced resins. This tool converts fiber orientation data into “I-Lupe” material property lists, which are used as reference for selecting the optimal material for specific applications, enabling an accurate visual representation of deformation behaviour of fiber-reinforced resins.

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