Tips & Tricks

e-café #3 - Customiser l'interface PAM-STAMP
Vous voulez personnaliser votre environnement de travail avec PAMSTAMP ? Cet e-café vous explique comment customiser l'interface en utilisant un workflow dédié et en utilisant des barres d'outils faites sur mesure.
Julien Charbonneaux Sheet Metal Forming

Visual-Environment Highlight of Visual-Seat: STAN Thermal Dummy
STAN is a thermal dummy to test thermal comfort and moisture management characteristics of automobile, truck, and airplane seating. This device is commercialized by Thermetrics® and some relevant information can be found here: https://thermetrics.com/products/manikin/stan/. In collaboration with Thermetrics, ESI developed a numerical model of the STAN dummy for the prediction of its thermal behavior. No humidity is managed in this version of the model. A process for the setup of the seating and the thermal simulations of the STAN dummy have been added in this version.
Christian Marca Virtual Seat, Virtual Integration Platform

Visual-Environment Highlight of Visual-Seat: Sewing Simulation Guided Setup
Sewing simulations aim at assembling flat cover patterns and wrapping them around deformable foam block. This application exists in Visual-Seat for many versions as a set of toolboxes and functionalities enabling to set-up this type of input. This has been enhanced with a workflow gathering all tools and functionalities and proposing them in the right sequential order to provide some user guidance.
Christian Marca Virtual Seat, Virtual Integration Platform

Visual-Environment Highlight of Visual-Seat: Foam Blocks Positioning
When assembling the different components of the seat, it may happen that the foam at rest is intersecting the frame and/or the suspensions. In order to remove those intersections, a simulation-based technique had been implemented previously by applying surface pressure on foam. Upon customer request, a new method has been added where the frame (and suspensions) can be scaled down and moved initially to retrieve progressively their size and position during simulation, when the contact with foam is active.
Christian Marca Virtual Seat, Virtual Integration Platform

Recommendations to use IRONING option in PAM-STAMP
Several recommendations for ironing
Martin Holecek Sheet Metal Forming

e-Café #2 - Réaliser la compensation géométrique de l'outillage de façon automatique avec PAMSTAMP
Réaliser la compensation géométrique de l'outillage de façon automatique avec PAMSTAMP
Julien Charbonneaux Sheet Metal Forming

e-café #1 - Réaliser une mise en données en 5 minutes en utilisant le workflow PAMSTAMP
Presse simple effet avec PAMSTAMP
Julien Charbonneaux Sheet Metal Forming

Interface SYSWELD / ABAQUS
The objective of this interface is to perform a restart with ABAQUS using a SYSWELD computation. The difficulty is to transfer the metallurgical effects in a data structure which is not designed for it.
Yonggang Duan Welding & Assembly

How to Obtain Best Results within Reasonable Time from a Heat Treatment Simulation
Heat treated parts are in most cases not clamped during heat treatment, for an FEM analysis, at least a static determined clamping is needed that does not allow any rigid body motion.
Yonggang Duan Welding & Assembly

Stamping/HT Chaining of 3D Ring - Restart tool in Visual Heat Treatment
This article is to show effects of heat treatment on stresses when industrial mechanical parts are stamped (or welded) by 3 typical heat treatment steps: Heating, Quenching and Tempering. Tempering is generally considered effective in relieving stresses induced by quenching in addition to lowering hardness to within a specified range, or meeting certain mechanical property requirements.
Yonggang Duan Welding & Assembly