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Karax LLC offers an array of computational tools to meet your predictive modeling needs. K-Suite, our modular computational framework, can help guide your materials decisions with predictive tools for quantifying the effects of various damage processes on the mechanical behavior of polymeric components.

Automotive Computational Tools

Components that require evaluation:

1. Rubber tires

2. Sealings

3. Rubber hoses

4. Anti vibration parts

5. Thermal insulators

6. Thermoplastics used in weight reduction

7. Flame retardant cables

8. Gaskets

9. Electrical insulators

10. EV battery components

Applications of polymers in electric vehicles:

  • Polymers are used in electric vehicle battery packs as electrical and thermal insulators, lids and tension collectors. They are used in Li-ion battery electrodes and separators. They further find applications in solid-state batteries.

  • To achieve weight reduction, metal parts are replaced by polymeric or composite materials. To further this cause, polymeric materials are used in weather strip seals and in thermal management systems.

  • Polymeric components such as cables, gaskets, housings and mounts are used in electrification.

Relevant Modules

1. Quasi-static Overloads

2. High frequency vibrations

3. Thermal Oxidation

4. Thermal Cycling

5. Hydrolysis

6. Hygrothermal (Moisture Diffusion)

Solutions

Polymers used in automobiles undergo degradation due to various environmental stressors. Our tools are capable of predicting failure probability and degradation of these polymeric materials.

  1. Polymer degradation 

  1. Polymer aging prediction 

  1. Polymer durability 

  1. Polymer life prediction 

  1. Polymer performance degradation 

  1. Polymer material aging 

  1. Polymer part life cycle 

  1. Polymer component degradation 

  1. Polymer part aging 

  1. Polymer part life prediction 

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