Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 16, 2022 - November 18, 2022
The cloth simulation is applied to simulate the web handling process. Simulating the web handling process is challenging because of its thinness and the complex geometry when the wrinkle and folding occur, requiring stable calculation of the contact between the web and rollers. The cloth simulation has been widely used to generate realistic motion of cloth with wrinkles and folding for the computer graphics. The cloth simulation, however, is not based on the solid mechanics, and its applicability to the engineering field is still unclear. Therefore, the feasibility of the cloth simulation on the engineering purpose was demonstrated in this study. Applying the cloth simulation to the web handling process, the folding was simulated successfully when the mesh was small enough, the friction coefficient was high, and the degree of misalignment was large. Although the misalignment angle and the friction coefficient to generate the folding have not agreed quantitatively with the experimental data, the cloth simulation can be used to predict the web behavior potentially.
