Automotive View on Forming of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites and its Simulation.

This paper presents three projects of Faurecia in the domain of composite part forming and an evaluation of current forming simulation approaches regarding an application in the automotive industry. Via the latter the most performant group of currently available simulation approaches is identified. Their main drawback is however a high computational effort and further research should be done in order to accelerate them. Hereafter recommendations for an ideal forming simulation approach are identified by presenting three projects of Faurecia in the domain of composite part forming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]