Conference Agenda

2:00pm - 2:20pm

Mechanical microstructure characterization of discontinuous-fiber reinforced composites by means of experimental-numerical micro tensile tests

M. Schober^1,2, K. Dittmann¹, P. Gumbsch², T. Kuboki³, J. Hohe¹

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Germany; ²Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; ³University of Western Ontario, Canada

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Numerical analysis of the thermally induced damage in remote laser cut carbon fiber reinforced polymers

B. Schmidt, M. Rose, M. Zimmermann, M. Kästner

TU Dresden, Germany

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Development and validation of a virtual process chain for sheet molding compound composites

J. Görthofer¹, N. Meyer¹, L. Schöttl¹, A. Trauth¹, M. Schemmann¹, P. Pinter¹, M. Hohberg¹, T. Dora Pallicity¹, K. A. Weidenmann¹, P. Elsner¹, F. Henning¹, A. Hrymak², T. Seelig¹, L. Kärger¹, T. Böhlke¹

¹Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; ²University of Western Ontario, Canada

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Development of a novel damage approach on the microstructure for modelling woven Ceramic Matrix Composites

M.-C. Reuvers, S. Rezaei, T. Brepols, S. Reese

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

3:20pm - 3:40pm

Verification and validation of a 2D energy based peridynamic state-based failure criterion

C. Willberg, M. Rädel, H. Falk

Germam Aerospace Center, Germany

3:40pm - 4:00pm

Computationally effective spot-weld fatigue life estimation for vehicle components

M. Zigo¹, E. Arslan², W. Mack², G. Kepplinger¹

¹MAGNA STEYR Engineering, Austria; ²TU Wien, Austria