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Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures.

Polycarbonates used in engineering are strong, tough materials, and some grades are optically transparent.

They are easily worked, molded, and thermoformed.

Because of these properties, polycarbonates find many applications.

Polycarbonates do not have a unique resin identification code (RIC) and are identified as "Other", 7 on the RIC list.

Products made from polycarbonate can contain the precursor monomer bisphenol A (BPA).

SolidWorks (stylized as SOLIDWORKS) is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) computer program that runs on Microsoft Windows.

SolidWorks is published by Dassault Systèmes.

ANSYS, Inc. is an American Computer-aided engineering software developer headquartered south of Pittsburgh in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

Ansys publishes engineering analysis software across a range of disciplines including finite element analysis, structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, explicit and implicit methods, and heat transfer.

The finite element method (FEM) is a numerical method for solving problems of engineering and mathematical physics.

It is also referred to as finite element analysis (FEA).

Typical problem areas of interest include structural analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow, mass transport, and electromagnetic potential.

The analytical solution of these problems generally require the solution to boundary value problems for partial differential equations.

The finite element method formulation of the problem results in a system of algebraic equations.

The method yields approximate values of the unknowns at discrete number of points over the domain.

To solve the problem, it subdivides a large problem into smaller, simpler parts that are called finite elements.

The simple equations that model these finite elements are then assembled into a larger system of equations that models the entire problem.

FEM then uses variational methods from the calculus of variations to approximate a solution by minimizing an associated error function.

A Thermosetting resin is a prepolymer in a soft solid or viscous liquid state that changes irreversibly into an infusible, insoluble polymer network by curing.

Curing is induced by the action of heat or suitable radiation often under high pressure, or by mixing with a catalyst or crosslinking agent often under atmospheric conditions at ambient temperature.