ANSYS Composite Cure Simulation USER GUIDE

Contents:

• 1. Getting Started
  • 1.1. Overview
    • 1.1.1. Introduction
    • 1.1.2. ACCS Workflows
    • 1.1.3. Supported Platforms and Functional Add-ons
    • 1.1.4. First Steps
  • 1.2. Graphical User Interface
  • 1.3. Workbench Implementation
    • 1.3.1. Basic Workflow
    • 1.3.2. ACCS Component Properties
    • 1.3.3. Supported Analysis Types
    • 1.3.4. Multiple Load Cases and Analyses
• 2. Installation Guide
  • 2.1. Requirements
  • 2.2. Installation on Microsoft Windows OS
    • 2.2.1. Graphical Installation
    • 2.2.2. Silent installation
  • 2.3. Post-install configuration
  • 2.4. Uninstalling
    • 2.4.1. Graphical uninstallation
    • 2.4.2. Silent uninstallation
• 3. Usage Reference
  • 3.1. Workflow
  • 3.2. Material Definition
  • 3.3. Adding the Cure Simulation Equations
  • 3.4. Analysis Settings
  • 3.5. Support Remover
  • 3.6. Post-Processing Options
    • 3.6.1. Material State
    • 3.6.2. Degree of Cure
    • 3.6.3. Glass Transition Temperature
    • 3.6.4. Heat of Reaction
  • 3.7. Export Compensated Geometry
• 4. Scripting
  • 4.1. Documentation
    • 4.1.1. Project class
    • 4.1.2. Mechanical class
    • 4.1.3. ACCSload class
    • 4.1.4. ACCSsuprem class
    • 4.1.5. ACCSsurexp class
    • 4.1.6. Interactive help
  • 4.2. Examples
    • 4.2.1. Full cure simulation
    • 4.2.2. Fast cure simulation via MRCC
    • 4.2.3. Fast cure simulation via T vs t
  • 4.3. Running the solver
• 5. Best Practices
  • 5.1. How to Define an Autoclave Cycle
    • 5.1.1. Number of Steps
    • 5.1.2. Time Step Size
  • 5.2. Solution Methods
    • 5.2.1. Transient Solution Method (Full Simulation)
    • 5.2.2. Fast Solution Method (Fast Simulation)
  • 5.3. Meshing Considerations
  • 5.4. Material Considerations
  • 5.5. Tool-Part Interaction
  • 5.6. Typical Values and Measurements
• 6. Workshops
• 7. Validation Test Case
• 8. Theory Documentation
  • 8.1. Differential Scanning Calorimetry
  • 8.2. Cure Kinetics Equations for thermosets
    • 8.2.1. Nth Order
    • 8.2.2. Autocatalytic
    • 8.2.3. Kamal Sourour
    • 8.2.4. Avrami-Erofeev
    • 8.2.5. Karnakas-Partridge
    • 8.2.6. Proportional Diffusion Limitation
    • 8.2.7. Parallel Diffusion Limitation
    • 8.2.8. Released Heat
    • 8.2.9. Glass Transition Temperature
    • 8.2.10. Cure Shrinkage
    • 8.2.11. Material Model
  • 8.3. Crystallisation Equations for thermoplastics
    • 8.3.1. PEEK
    • 8.3.2. Released Heat
    • 8.3.3. Reference Temperature
    • 8.3.4. Cure Shrinkage
    • 8.3.5. Material Model
  • 8.4. Viscoelasticity
    • 8.4.1. Prony Series
    • 8.4.2. Temperature Time Shift
    • 8.4.3. Degree of Cure Time Shift
  • 8.5. References
• 9. Supported Elements
  • 9.1. Thermal Analysis
  • 9.2. Structural Analysis
• 10. Trouble Shooting
  • 10.1. Error #0x0001
  • 10.2. Error #0x0002
  • 10.3. Error #0x0003
  • 10.4. Error #0x0004
  • 10.5. Licensing error for HPC
  • 10.6. Unloaded extension
  • 10.7. Hidden ribbon in Mechanical

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