This presentation will expose the inherent, and often poorly communicated, challenges of designing structural plastic parts, and explain how to overcome these hurtles, with next generation engineering and materials.
Overview
It's no secret that engineers are under tremendous pressure to constantly improve the performance of a part without sacrificing cost or lead time. The after effects of the pandemic have now added additional pressure to create a robust and dynamic supply chain given the current supply shortages. This is no small feat and engineers are starting to look towards non-metallic materials to help solve this problem.
In the world of structures (defined as materials that experience loads for extended periods of time), injection molded parts often don't perform as intended, because modeling them is very difficult, due to their non-isotropic nature, and lack of plastic specific analytics. Metal just made more sense because it was easy and proven.
However, new developments in fiber reinforcements, compounding, simulation, and analysis have opened new doors for injection molding parts that are as strong as metal, while reducing weight and cost. This webinar will cover advanced methods for designing metal-to-plastic parts, and how ensure that the actual product performance will match design expectations.
Key Takeaways
- Discuss the limitations of structural plastics, and why datasheets can be misleading to design engineers
- Learn why traditional FEA/CAE software is ineffective and misleading for structural plastic design, and the advanced engineering that solves this problem.
- Explore how to avoid the design traps of structural polymers, and produce products that perform as intended.
- Meet KyronMAX, the world's strongest, most process friendly injection moldable compounds.
- Discover how to correlate your proposed design, against actual product performance.
Speakers
Alex Wotjysiak has been with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials since 2017. With a background in compounding and injection molding, Alex began his journey in biochemistry and biofuel production as a Bioreactor Operator. He subsequently joined Mitsubishi Chemical, where he now sits within the technical sales/key account management team for carbon fiber composites. He joined the organization at a time when it started expanding into carbon fiber composites, and since then has enjoyed finding new and innovative composite solutions for the different industries Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials services.
David Dahl is a Composites Application Engineer at the MCAM Technology and Innovation Center for in Mesa, Arizona. His primary focus is to closely work with customers to implement MCAM composite solutions into advanced applications with an emphasis on metal-to-plastic conversion for the automotive, marine, medical, and recreational goods industries. Prior to MCAM, David worked at Stratasys in Minneapolis, MN developing additively manufactured composite layup tooling for the aerospace and automotive industries. David graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering.