CASE STUDY
Innovative solutions for the optimization of foam structures
Enhance the insulation properties of your foam structures while maintaining the same thickness: Our simulations optimize thermal conductivity, material selection, and structural strength. Thorough analyses bolster your customers' trust, support your sales, and ensure significantly higher customer acquisition.
Challenge
How can I optimize the foam structure to achieve high insulating effectiveness while maintaining adequate mechanical durability?
Added Value
The customer gains a deeper, significantly more insightful understanding of the development of their foam structures. Through a scientific approach combined with simulation and analysis, a pathway can be demonstrated that further enhances the insulation value. All this without the necessity of initially creating, analyzing, and cutting various structures through labor-intensive foam extrusion. And in a diversity that would never be possible in reality.
Solution Approach
We simulate various real foam structures to analyze temperature distribution after they have been captured via CT scan. Based on this data, we derive initial insights into which factors contribute to a lower thermal conductivity. We then develop ideal foam structures both in 2D and 3D to precisely investigate the relationship between structure and thermal conductivity. This enables us to design a structure that ensures the lowest possible thermal conductivity while maintaining consistent volume weight. In parallel, we conduct structural-mechanical simulations of the foams to ensure the required strength values are consistently met. In addition to heat conduction, radiation reflection plays a crucial role in insulation effectiveness. Higher reflection means less energy is absorbed. To optimize this, at IANUS Simulation, we perform spectral analyses for various base materials of our clients. In this way, we can accurately determine which material is best suited for the specific requirements of the customer.
Benefit
By improving insulating properties while maintaining thickness, we significantly strengthen your market position. The visualization and well-founded substantiation of these properties through simulations build trust, support sales, and lead to higher customer acquisition.
"The partner package provides us with the opportunity to receive substantial support, even for tasks that fall outside of our daily core business operations. Here, the network and expertise of IANUS Simulation offer a highly valued benefit that has already significantly shortened the development of several components. IANUS, as a partner, provides us with the tremendous advantage of functioning as an extension of our development department. This allows us to conduct optimizations with appropriate parameter studies through IANUS, saving us iterations on the plant." - Felix Schulte
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