Expertise
Thermo-mechanical manufacturing
Computational welding mechanics and additive manufacturing with heat-source models, element activation and coupled thermo-plasticity.
Named methods
- computational welding mechanics
- additive manufacturing simulation
- Goldak double-ellipsoid heat sources
- element activation and deactivation
- staggered and monolithic thermo-mechanical solvers
- finite-strain coupled thermo-plasticity
- Taylor-Quinney heating
- adaptive time-stepping with restart
Contribution to a work package
Flowphys can implement and run thermo-mechanical manufacturing simulations for welding, cladding and additive processes, including process-parameter studies and surrogate training.