Gordon Composites™ continuous glass and carbon fiber bar stock, laminates, and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications Gordon Glass™ archery bow limbs Fiber-Line™ engineered high-performance fibers, including coated, twisted, and custom-wound aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers 

Gordon Composites™ continuous glass and carbon fiber bar stock, laminates, and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications Gordon Glass™ archery bow limbs Fiber-Line™ engineered high-performance fibers, including coated, twisted, and custom-wound aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers 

Gordon Composites™ continuous glass and carbon fiber barstock, laminates, and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications Gordon Glass™ archery bow limbs Fiber-Line™ engineered high-performance fibers, including coated, twisted, and custom wound aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers

Gordon Composites™ continuous-glass and carbon-fiber barstock, laminates and composite springs, including springs for high-temperature industrial applications Gordon Glass™ archery bow limbs Fiber-Line™ engineered high-performance fibers, including coated, twisted, and custom wound aramid, glass, carbon, HMPE, and LCP fibers

When slush molding a door panel, vinyl powder is added to a hot mold, which melts the powder to a 1 mm-thick coating, and the mold then rotates so that the melted material can fill the entire cavity. The supplier found that the vinyl powders it was using clumped in the corners of the mold during processing rather than filling the mold, causing air entrapment and generating unacceptable amounts of scrap.

T339.0 NP-101 CONCENTRATE 5% BN-FILLED T339.9 FEP100 CONCENTRATE 5% BN-FILLED PP FR 8-6 LMS-1000

BN-FILLED T635.5 FEP HIGH FLOW CONC. 5% BN-FILLED PP FR 8-6 LMS-1000

Moisture-resistant Complēt™ long glass fiber reinforced formulation improves strength, design freedom, and finish Complēt™ MT Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Nylon 6 improved durability and vibration damping allowing the blades to flex and absorb energy from minor impacts Complēt™ long glass fiber reinforced nylon composite supports the weight of a 25-pound motor without creep while being lower in weight and less costly to produce

Moisture-resistant Complēt™ long glass fiber reinforced formulation improves strength, design freedom, and finish Complēt™ MT Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Nylon 6 improved durability and vibration damping allowing the blades to flex and absorb energy from minor impacts Complēt™ long glass fiber reinforced nylon composite supports the weight of a 25-pound motor without creep while being lower in weight and less costly to produce

Material Data Sets • A number of material characterization data sets are available in .udb, moldex 3D, xChange data cards, and SIPOE format Mold Filling Simulation (see examples below) • Serves to validate part design (e.g., gate location, fill/pack/warp/cool) & material solution • Evaluates component design viability with preferred Avient material solution • Fiber analysis determines fiber orientation and length • Predicts part quality and manufacturability (shrink, warp, weld line location) FILLING PART QUALITYFIBER ORIENTATION Finite Element Analysis (FEA) • Virtually simulates how an application will perform in real-world conditions with a high level of precision • Able to represent a variety of problems, test methods, models and outputs to evaluate the design, process and material combination for validation or optimization • Dynamic - Acceleration - Impact - Break/no break - Transmitted force - Energy absorption • Thermal Mechanical - Temperature Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Heat path - Dominant heat transfer - Temperature mapping - Coupling with mechanical simulations FEA Simulation Capabilities • Static - Displacement/rotations - Stress and strains - Contact pressure - Reaction forces/moments - Factors of safety • Vibration - Eigen frequencies - Harmonic response ○ Harmonic displacement, acceleration and stress Software Used • Autodesk Moldflow • Digimat • Simulia/Abaqus • MSC Cradle • CAD/CAE - MSC Apex - SolidWorks Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) Support By leveraging mold filling simulation, multiphysics simulation, and the understanding of the link between design, process and material, we can help inform your decision-making process for product development.