JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #105 - June 2016 - 13

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Keonys offers customers its support experience in setting
up product life cycle management projects and its expertise
in the main industrial sectors. For more than 20 years, the
company has been helping its customers equip and optimize
their engineering networks and also improve their methods
for cooperation to develop new experiences with their own
customers.

losing sight of the manufacturing constraints, a high-performance analysis tool must be used to simulate the effects
of various outside conditions on the part's inner structure.
These new methods lead to a considerable productivity gain,
since being able to immediately identify the production
constraints reduces the number of iteration loops required
during the stages between design and testing or production.
The feasibility of the manufacturing process is becoming a
crucial element in design methods.

Building for life with plastics
The growing challenges to reduce global CO2 emissions are opening
up huge potential for the construction industry. The demand is
for sustainable and energy-efficient structures built with highperformance plastics. Even reinforced concrete won't rust any
Keonys proposal SIMULATION workflow

more, as carbon composites replace the steel rebars. With some

These processes are challenging the silo mentality. They help
to cut down on all the previous "back and forth" that was
created because traditional methods were not adapted for
composite materials and knowledge on analysis methods and
the materials themselves was not shared consistently. Pooling
expertise early on in the design process through a transdisciplinary approach enables companies to optimize their
pre-production costs and to innovate.

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By analogy with composite part design, the same principle
should be applied to the design methods for parts made
using new additive manufacturing processes (3D printing).
The constraints associated with the process are extremely
impactful, making the use of simulation for producing the
first blanks an obvious choice, or even a necessity. The 3D
printing of composites is going to bring up new issues that
have not been addressed yet in industrial circles. n
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