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Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding
PVC injection molding has constrained temperature and shear rate owing to its temperature sensitivity and high viscosity, as well as its low conductivity. Many challenges are associated with the PVC injection molding process used for producing PVC fittings with a multi-cavity mold. Once filling imba...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459958/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36080557 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173483 |
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author | Tsai, Hsi-Hsun Wu, Shao-Jung Liu, Jia-Wei Chen, Sin-He Lin, Jui-Jung |
author_facet | Tsai, Hsi-Hsun Wu, Shao-Jung Liu, Jia-Wei Chen, Sin-He Lin, Jui-Jung |
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description | PVC injection molding has constrained temperature and shear rate owing to its temperature sensitivity and high viscosity, as well as its low conductivity. Many challenges are associated with the PVC injection molding process used for producing PVC fittings with a multi-cavity mold. Once filling imbalance occurs, the gates and/or runner of the mold should be changed by machine tools, which is time- and cost-intensive. Using Moldex3D and the Taguchi method, this study reveals an approach to eliminate imbalanced filling of multi-cavity molds for PVC injection molding. The injection rate optimization of the filling stage is successfully verified to reduce the imbalance. Furthermore, the temperatures of the molded PVC fittings are only slightly increased by the change in injection rate. The temperatures of fittings in the filling and packing are lower than the degradation temperature of PVC. This approach may help technicians to obtain pilot-run samples for the optimization of molding parameters and ensure degradation-free PVC molding. |
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spelling | pubmed-94599582022-09-10 Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding Tsai, Hsi-Hsun Wu, Shao-Jung Liu, Jia-Wei Chen, Sin-He Lin, Jui-Jung Polymers (Basel) Article PVC injection molding has constrained temperature and shear rate owing to its temperature sensitivity and high viscosity, as well as its low conductivity. Many challenges are associated with the PVC injection molding process used for producing PVC fittings with a multi-cavity mold. Once filling imbalance occurs, the gates and/or runner of the mold should be changed by machine tools, which is time- and cost-intensive. Using Moldex3D and the Taguchi method, this study reveals an approach to eliminate imbalanced filling of multi-cavity molds for PVC injection molding. The injection rate optimization of the filling stage is successfully verified to reduce the imbalance. Furthermore, the temperatures of the molded PVC fittings are only slightly increased by the change in injection rate. The temperatures of fittings in the filling and packing are lower than the degradation temperature of PVC. This approach may help technicians to obtain pilot-run samples for the optimization of molding parameters and ensure degradation-free PVC molding. MDPI 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9459958/ /pubmed/36080557 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173483 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tsai, Hsi-Hsun Wu, Shao-Jung Liu, Jia-Wei Chen, Sin-He Lin, Jui-Jung Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title | Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title_full | Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title_fullStr | Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title_full_unstemmed | Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title_short | Filling-Balance-Oriented Parameters for Multi-Cavity Molds in Polyvinyl Chloride Injection Molding |
title_sort | filling-balance-oriented parameters for multi-cavity molds in polyvinyl chloride injection molding |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459958/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36080557 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173483 |
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