DEMONSTRATION OF BEPLATE ELECTROFORMING SIMULATIOti CODE IN GENERAL PRODUCTION CONDITIONS AND GEOMETRIES

The ORNLN-12Kemcom team has developed an electroforming advisor, CellSim. CellSim is an easy-to-use design and computational problem-solving environment for electroforming. A primary goal of this project was to enable electroformers to optimally design a process that would make a part right the first time and with minimum cost. The computer simulations can be carried out much faster than experimentation, and without hazardous waste production. Electroforming (EF) Advisor CellSim integrates and uses the Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) capabilities of the UniGraphics and Patran commercial systems coupled with the simulation capabilities of a locally developed three-dimensional boundary element code, BEPLATE.