Use FiberGeo to generate and model fibrous structures. Starting from random distributions of fibers, FiberGeo creates virtual non-woven and fiber reinforced composites.

To generate fibrous material models, FiberGeo requires the input of fiber material and form, and the desired statistical properties of the resulting structure, such as size, amount of the solid phase, etc. The fibers can be straight or curved, where the profile shape can be varied (circular, elliptical, rectangular, cellulose, etc.). The orientation of fibers and the distribution of fiber parameters can be specified. It is possible, for example, to generate structures with prescribed solid volume percentage, prescribed density or prescribed grammage.

FiberGeo fibrous structures are based on given statistical properties that can be estimated e.g. from 3D images (CT-scan), from 2D images like REM, from certain material properties or from the knowledge of the underlying production process. These properties can also be computed in GeoDict directly from the scan using the module FiberFind. The generated non-woven models are available as 3-dimensional images and as analytical data (GAD, GeoDict analytic data), which can be used to export surface triangulations (stl-files) for CAD-programs.

Other material properties like pore-size distribution, flow resistivity (permeability, pressure drop), effective thermal and electrical conductivity, effective elasticity, effective diffusion, filter efficiency, filter capacity, and many more, can be calculated directly on the geometry models, using other GeoDict modules, e.g. PoroDict, ConductoDict, FlowDict, ElastoDict, DiffuDict, or FilterDict.

Important application areas are the production of glass fiber and carbon fiber reinforced composites, fibrous insulation materials, gas diffusion layers in fuel cells, filter media, dewatering felts, and many others.

Additionally, a FiberGeo license offers the possibility to generate Gaussian Random Fields, which can be segmented to structures as described here.