What?

• Understand how a sheetmetal part behaves when subjected to forces seen in overmolding process

How?

• Modeled deformation behavior of gasket support features in ANSYS
• Loaded production parts with 3D printed load mask to validate FEA results
• Scanned deformed parts with laser, converted data into a mesh inspectable in CAD using Python
• Top Down design to distill complex part into a simplified representative model for fast communication with mold tooling suppliers

Results.

• Proved that overmolding on current gen componant is not possible
• Provided valuable design insight for next generation part