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Long Glass Fiber-Polypropylene Light Weight Instrument Panel Retainers & Door Modules
Matthew MarksSeptember 16-18 2008
SPE-Automotive Composites Conference Conference / Troy, MI, USA
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Contents
1. A brief history of door modules and IP’s
2. Materials
3. Costs
4. Thin wall design
5. Warpage control
6. Trends
7. Conclusions
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History: 2002 to present
Comments at that time:
This is for the Ford Fiesta.
Why are there no other cars?
Disbelief in door module concept.
It is an extra part.
Assembly outside current line considered complicated
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Situation 2008 - LGF-PP Door modules
Ford
VW
Skoda
Hyundai
Kia
Fiat
Mercedes
Chrysler
BMW
Jaguar
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and injection moldedhatchback doors
in production or development
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Dashboards examples LGF-PP Standard Injection Molding
VW: Golf, Golf Plus, Touran, Bora,
Jetta
Skoda: Octavia, Superb
Audi:A4
Ford:Fiesta, Focus, Fusion
Mercedes: A, B, C, M, R
Volvo:S40, V50
Opel: Vectra
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2. Materials
Both dashboards carriers and door modules:
- Good flow
- High stiffness
- Safe fracture
- Dimensional stability
and more recently: Light weight (why more recently?)_
High impact strength is not required, but good crash behavior is.Example: Dashboard carriers don't need Charpy notched > 10 kJ/m2, E.g. short glass mSMA can be OK
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PP talc 20%
- low stiffness/strength at 80°C (2.5mm PP/talc = 1.8mm LGF-PP) + material price/kg (not per part?!)
SMA short glass 12%
- poor flowability (2.5mm, 4000 ton)0 same mechanical properties as LGF-PP 20%+ warpage OK, foam adhesion easy
Material choice IPs
20% long glass PP
+ thin-wall possible (t=1.7mm, 2000 ton)
0 needs thorough knowledge of warpage predictions to guarantee correct shape.
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3. Costs
Cost price calculation example IP carrier
Calculations basis is design / development for 3 different OEM dashboards:
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Calculated weight factor IP-carrier
* mSMA
min wall thickness = 2.2mm
3.04.573.97Weight of Instrument Panel of 2900 cm3 [kg]
1.001.521.34Density factor x Wall thickness
1.001.391.22*Rel. Wall thickness
1.001.101.10Density factor
1.051.151.15Density
PP-LGF 20%PC/ABSunfilledmSMA-SGF 12%
Density factor =ρ Material
ρ PP-LGF
Stiffness factor =E2 x (t2)
2.2
E1 x (t1)2.2
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Cost Price Calculation IP - Assumptions
Machine size equal *Cycle time equalEnergy consumption equal
Mold investment equal
Number of operators equal
Assembling cost equal
Flame treatment cost for PP-LGF ~ $0.50 / part (incl. investment)
Unfavorable assumptionfor part cost price PP-LGF
* Conservative assumptions: - Typical PP-LGF clamp force = 1600 ton, amorphous 2500 ton.- Typically wall-thickness much thinner for PP-LGF, faster cooling/energy.
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Material Cost Price IP Calculated weight factor IP
100%
including delta for flame treatment
190%145%Material cost per part [$]
100%125%110%Material price / kg
[$]
3.04.573.97Material weight
[kg]
PP-LGF20%
PC/ABS unfilled
mSMA-SGF 12%
Low densityHigh stiffness (high temperature)
Low weight Low material cost
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4. Thin wall design
"Light weight design" has been a topic on all international congresses for years.
Is it becoming more of a new requirement? Differentiator?
=> Solution: Materials + Engineering
1. Molding thin walls
2. Design optimization
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Filling example
t=1.7 mm
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Design optimization – 1 clever design
From "metal" design
To plastic
Example door module
+ Wall-thickness optimizationtypical 1.0-1.5 to max. 3-4 mm
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Effect clever designFront-end structure
Clever design Standard design
Factor 4 increase in stiffness, just by design.Or 2 kg = 33% weight + cost saving on total front-end.
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Design optimization, AnisotropicUse fiber orientation from flow.
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Design optimization, Anisotropic
example fiber orientation core layer example E-modulus distribution
Using anisotropy! Up to 20% weight saving compared to isotropic.
But still hardly used for IP/door modules
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5. Warpage control
Filling is not the issue, large IP can be filled with one gate!
=> One important issue: Warpage control.
Effect fiber length on fiber orientation.
Long fiber Ci/Dz/λ coefficients as f(glass%, length, thickness)
Effect gating strategies, spring-forward predictions, etc.
Own SABIC Moldflow version and knowledge developedand still ongoing.
Default result:
LGF result:
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Developments in simulations Dashboards/IP-carriers
1. Warpage of both "as molded" and "trimmed" dashboard.
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Developments in simulations Dashboards/IP-carriers
2. Warpage of assembly in car:
+ vibration welded air ducts, glove box, etc.
How does it fit into the car and when mounted?
Thin-wall dashboard is flexible. Out of the mold shape may be quite different compared to assembled shape.
z-deflection,nice fit
y-deflection,OK in assembly
Note:Special method developed for vibration welded assembly warpage.
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6. Trends
1. Only recently first examples of weight and wall-thickness optimization in door modules.
2. Structural upgrade of dashboard carriers
Cross car beam
3. Other light weight alternatives?
Foaming?
Injection-compression?
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Cross car beam 1 to 1 replacement
Steel -> STAMAX:
STAMAX beam only weighsca. 2 kg, at t=3mm.
=> Integration with carrier.diameter 150mm!
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Needs validated impact simulation data
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True Strain [-]
Von Mises stress [MPa]
0.01/s measured 1/s measured 10/s measured 100/s measured
0.01/s Simulated 1/s Simulated 10/s Simulated 100/s Simulated
Single Element Validation
LS-DYNA
+ test bar validation+ component validation
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Example of dynamic validation Component test, beam compression
Only half of the beam is being tested , this is done to prevent instable collapse
Impactor:m = 4.47 kgvinitial = 9.409 m/s
Foundation:beam fully constrained
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Example of dynamic validation Component test, beam compression
test data supplied by
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-0.0002 0 0.0002 0.0004 0.0006 0.0008 0.001 0.0012 0.0014 0.0016 0.0018 0.002
Kraft
auflage force 0.05 old simulation
auflage force 0.20 old simulation
auflage force 0.15 old simulation
auflage force 0.15 new simulation with new model--> ABAQUS
auflage force 0.15 new simulation with further optimised model --> ABAQUS
auflage force 0.15 new simulation Step function 7% --> PAM-CRASH
Measurement vs. calculation unfiltered
Measurement peaks due to oscillations in impactor, force sensor location
Force (N)
Time (s)
quite good agreement in failure progression
Variations in damage evolution, compression vs. tension and fiber pull-out length.
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Side impact crash simulation
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Conclusions
• Door modules/IP-carriers in LGF-PP have become common practice.Reasons: Low weight, low cost.
• Thin wall molding is state of the art,but weight optimization is just getting accepted.=> large cost/weight saving potential.
• Warpage control knowledge key to success for LGF-PP.
• Trends for more structural dashboard carriers.