Drop Test Simulation of a Cooker Including Foam Packaging and Pre-stressed Plastic Foil Wrapping

The present work deals with the numerical simulation of a drop test of a cooker including packaging foam and plastic foil wrapping. Additionally the pre-stressing of cooker and packaging due to thermal shrinkage of the plastic foil has been taken into account in the numerical investigation. For this, a thermal pre-stressing simulation of the plastic wrapping has been included before the actual drop test of the whole assembly has been conducted. The permanent deformations of the cooker nearby the impacted edge as well as the deformation of package foam in the vicinity of the impacted edge were the primary areas of interest and compared with experimental data. LS-DYNA [1] was used to perform the drop test simulation of the cooker as well as the thermal pre-stress simulation of the plastic wrapping.