TY - JFULL AU - Masato Nishi and Tetsushi Kaburagi and Masashi Kurose and Tei Hirashima and Tetsusei Kurasiki PY - 2014/9/ TI - Forming Simulation of Thermoplastic Pre-Impregnated Textile Composite T2 - International Journal of Materials and Textile Engineering SP - 778 EP - 787 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999031 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 92, 2014 N2 - The process of thermoforming a carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) has increased its presence in the automotive industry for its wide applicability to the mass production car. A non-isothermal forming for CFRTP can shorten its cycle time to less than 1 minute. In this paper, the textile reinforcement FE model which the authors proposed in a previous work is extended to the CFRTP model for non-isothermal forming simulation. The effect of thermoplastic is given by adding shell elements which consider thermal effect to the textile reinforcement model. By applying Reuss model to the stress calculation of thermoplastic, the proposed model can accurately predict in-plane shear behavior, which is the key deformation mode during forming, in the range of the process temperature. Using the proposed model, thermoforming simulation was conducted and the results are in good agreement with the experimental results. ER -