한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집 (Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference)
- 한국소성가공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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- Pages.363-366
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- 2006
사출성형에서 런너 크기의 최적화를 위한 CAE 적용
An Application of CAE in the Decision of Optimum Runner Size in Injection Molding
초록
The delivery system such as sprue, runner and gate is a waste of resin in injection molding operation. In this study the reduction of runner size has been investigated using injection molding CAE softwares, Moldflow and Moldex, and commercial CFD Softwares, Fluent and Polyflow. To verify the computational results experiment was performed. There were three considerations in deciding optimal runner size in this study: minimum pressure at the gate that makes resin fully filled in the cavity, minimum runner size that compensates shrinkage of resin in the cavity, and frozen layer thickness formed in the runner during injection. Through the computer simulations the optimal runner size that satisfies those three considerations has been decided. Although the computational results among the softwares were slightly different, it was enough to predict, the optimal runner size. The previous runner diameter was 8 mm and predicted optimal size was 5 mm. This was verified by injection molding experiment. Thus, the way of CAE application in deciding optimal runner size adapted in this study would be appropriated.