Aerospace & Defense
Advanced Simulation for Aerospace & Defense Plastics
Simulating in Cadmould Flex empowers teams to design components for mission-critical applications.
From Fiber Alignment To PEEK: Mastering High-Performance Molding
Molding for strict tolerances, high temperatures, and impact resistance is no mean feat.
Retains Shape When Things Get Heated
For aerospace and defense components, dimensional stability is key. Aircraft interiors and UAV components must comply with strict tolerances, even when exposed to significant temperature variations.
Composite Materials, Complex Molding
Whether you're working with carbon or glass fiber-filled polymers, fiber alignment during molding is critical for shrinkage, warpage, and mechanical strength. Advanced fiber modeling is required to enable you to proactively optimize your designs.
Ensuring Impact Resistance and Durability
Helmets, protective gear, and structural components in defense and aerospace applications demand validated mechanical strength. Accurate validation needs realistic input—not just the design on paper, but the way the part is actually molded.
The Challenge of Molding High-Performance Plastics
Jet engine ducts and radar housings require tough, high-performance materials like PEEK. While the heat-resistant properties of these materials are desirable in real-world use, molding them is another story.
Engineering Reliability Under Extreme Conditions
The holistic Cadmould simulation ecosystem addresses key challenges faced by manufacturers of demanding aerospace and defense parts. From fiber alignment in anisotropic materials to molding of heat-resistant plastics, it drives informed optimization of all aspects of process design.
Stay in Shape—Even at 30,000 Feet
Thermal Mould Advanced analyzes cooling effectiveness and temperature distribution in the mold to predict shrinkage and warpage early in the design phase and empower you to meet tight dimensional specs from the get-go. If structural analysis is part of your workflow, Cadmould Flex also makes it possible to seamlessly transfer relevant data to structural solvers like Ansys.
Fiber-Reinforced? Design It Correctly.
We understand better than anyone the significance of fiber orientation for the final part. Cadmould Flex models how fibers align during molding to enable you to predict - and confidently optimize for - shrinkage, warpage, and mechanical behavior.
Where Precision Meets Protection
The Fiber Export add-on prepares and seamlessly transfers simulation data from Cadmould Flex to structural solvers like Ansys, with mapping software like Converse as an intermediary step when necessary. Where aerospace parts are subject to stringent performance requirements under real-world conditions, structural analyses based on realistic data enable you to guarantee part quality.
High Performance, High Expectations
Materials like PEEK handle heat better than most common plastics. By helping you master critical process conditions like temperature, flow behavior, and warpage, Cadmould Flex helps you shape PEEK and other demanding polymers with confidence.
Insights, innovations in injection moulding, webinars, and events.
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Complex part geometries requiring precise moulding techniques
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Stringent quality and safety standards that demand high accuracy
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Weight reduction initiatives to enhance fuel efficiency and sustainability
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