Simulation of the curing process upon epoxy-resin casting of electrical apparatuses-a flexible way to do this

This paper describes a flexible way to simulate the epoxy curing process upon casting of electrical apparatuses by implementing the basic coupled differential equations for the chemical reaction into a subroutine of the commercially available finite element analysis (FEA) tool ANSYS(R). By this, a higher flexibility in defining geometry and boundary conditions can be achieved. A comparison of results obtained from the ANSYS(R) program with other commercial software tools and with experimental results showed a good agreement.