Fiber Reinforcement Plastic (FRP), which is a key material in the advancement of weight reduction and material strengthening for a variety of industries, has a variety of forming methods, depending on fiber configuration and the type of resins used. To accommodate the automation of molding processes aimed at achieving both high cycle rates and low costs, there is a strong demand for pre-molding condition evaluation through simulation.
J-Composites is a group of tools, which work in cooperation with the multi-purpose solver Ansys LS-DYNA, to facilitate complex forming process and process chain simulation of resin composite materials. It supports reducing development time and costs in manufacturing processes involving press forming and resin flow.

This is a software series that supports resin-reinforced composite material processes and process chain analysis. The series includes a stamping simulation modeling tool "Form Modeler", a compression forming analysis modeling tool "Compression Molding", and "Fiber Mapper" which maps a composite flow simulation result to a structural mesh.

Form Modeler :
This tool reduces the labor required for composite material design by automatically converting physical property test results into material property data and automatically creating product models with complex laminate configurations. Through the use of Ansys LS-DYNA, we can simulate material behaviour during forming with high accuracy, which contributes to reduced development time and costs.

Compression Molding :
This tool incorporates a beam-in-solid coupling analysis method developed by JSOL that accurately predicts compression molding behaviour and automatically sets the optimal analysis parameters for computational stability based on JSOL's unique know-how. You can create simulation models easily and with high precision.

Fiber Mapper :
This mapping tool transfers forming analysis results of discontinuous fiber reinforced materials to their structual model counterparts for use with Ansys LS-DYNA. It enables prediction of the impacts of the forming process.

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