Basic Material Card

Overview of best practice material characterisation approach

The collaborative project between Forward Engineering GmbH, Hexion GmbH and Zoltek Corporation is aimed at decreasing the entrance barrier into composite structure development for the automotive industry. A standardized process of material characterisation and material card generation for FEA was established. The process is based on industry standard CFRP materials and follows a modular approach that helps to reduce complexity, testing cost and development lead times.