• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.623-632
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• 2018

Predicting the behavior of rheological polymers is highly shear rate- and temperature-dependent. The Cross-WLF viscosity model has become a powerful solution that describes the shear rate- and temperature-dependent characteristics. To estimate the behavior of polymers in computational simulations, the coefficients of the Cross-WLF model should be well identified. An identification technique was proposed to determine the Cross-WLF viscosity model coefficient. The assumption is that the Cross-WLF viscosity model well describes the real characteristics of polymers when the calculated viscosity with the parameters is identical to the reference data. In this study, Auto-desk Moldflow data were used as a reference. The numerical examples showed that the proposed method accurately identifies the Cross-WLF viscosity model coefficients.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.81-93
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• 2020

The fatigue characteristics of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) composites were studied under repeated loads using the finite element method (FEM). To realize the material characteristics of GFRP composites, Digimat, a mean-field homogenization tool, was employed. Additionally, the micro-structures and material models of GFRP composites were defined with it to predict the fatigue behavior of composites more realistically. Specifically, the fatigue characteristics of polybutylene terephthalate with short fiber fractions of 30wt% were investigated with respect to fiber orientation, stress ratio, and thickness. The injection analysis was conducted using Moldflow software to obtain the information on fiber orientations. It was mapped over FEM concerned with fatigue specimens. LS-DYNA, a typical finite element commercial software, was used in the coupled analysis of Digimat to calculate the stress amplitude of composites. FEMFAT software consisting of various numerical material models was used to predict the fatigue life. The results of coupled analysis of linear and nonlinear material models of Digimat were analyzed to identify the fatigue characteristics of GFRP composites using FEMFAT. Neuber's rule was applied to the linear material model to analyze the fatigue behavior in LCF regimen. Additionally, to evaluate the morphological and mechanical structure of GFRP composites, the coupled and fatigue analysis were conducted in terms of thickness.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.72-74
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• 2004

본 연구의 목적은 천안시 소재 (주)삼우금형의 생산 제품인 휴대폰 충전기에 대해 CAE 프로그램인 Moldflow와 CAPA를 이용하여 유동해석과 냉각해석을 수행함으로써 성형불량을 최소화하고 좋은 설계를 얻을 수 있는 최적의 성형조건을 얻으려는 것이다. 사출성형 관련 설계를 설계초기 단계에서 CAE기술을 활용하여 합리적인 설계로 나아가기 위한 구체적인 과정을 기술하였다. 제품 성형에 있어서의 문제점을 최소화하고 재료비 절감, 설계납기 단축, 제품 품질 향상을 달성하기 위해서 CAE 해석을 통하여 현재 제품의 문제점을 도출하고 그 해결책을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.812-815
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• 2000

Injection molding process was taken to manufacture DC motor case that surrounds DC motor used as automobile parts. Up to now, DC motor case has been made by the deep drawing process or bending process of metal materials. Simulations of filling, packing and cooling processes were done by CAE tool like Moldflow software. Optimal delivery system was decided from the analysis of flow balance, and packing and cooling analyses were performed by using the design of experiment to minimize the volumetric shrinkage of molded part and the temperature difference between mold and part.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.1294-1301
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• 2001

In order to reduce the time and cost for assembly, automobile speaker grills have been injection molded with door trims or map pockets in one piece recently. However, several defects such as short shots or air traps can easily occur due to the decreased fluidity of the melting polymer according to the excessive heat transfer to the mold. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize the resin feed system and predict possible defects by CAE analysis. However it is not possible to obtain exact analysis results for the speaker grill by using general shell elements since the heat transfer in the thickness direction which is the dominant factor of the filling stage can not be considered. Therefore, there have been several efforts to simulate the injection molding nature of the speaker grill by using shell elements with an effective thickness which is smaller than the actual thickness of the part. Two empirical values have been recommended for the effective thickness in real practice. One is 50∼70% of the thickness of the speaker grill and another is the gap distance between the adjacent holes. In this paper, CAE analyses of a map pocket with a speaker grill were conducted using shell elements with both of these recommended effective thicknesses, and the predicted flow fronts were compared with the findings from injection molding experiments. The commercial code MOLDFLOW was used for injection molding analysis and an 850 ton injection molding machine was used for experiments.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.264-269
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• 2012

Die slide injection marvelously reduces the cost and time in processing plastic products because they can simplify the conventional process through eliminating additional process. However, this process must resolve some defects like whitening, resin infiltration, blowhole, resin overflow, etc. In this study, the process parameters of the injection molding are optimized by using the finite element method and Taguchi method. The injection molding analysis is simulated by employing the Moldflow insight 2010 code and the 2nd injection is by adopting the Multi-stage injection code. The process parameters are optimized by using the $L_{16}$ orthogonal array and smaller-the-better characteristics of the Taguchi method that was used to produce an airtight container (coolant reservoir tank) from polypropylene (PP) plastic material.rodanwhile, the optimum values are confirmed to be similar in 95% confidence and 5% significance level through analysis of variance (ANOVA). rooreover, new products and old products were compared by mdasuring the dimensional accuracy, resulting in the improvement of dimensional stability more than 5%.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.349-357
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• 2019

Finite element method (FEM) is utilized in the development of products to realistically analyze and predict the mechanical behavior of materials in various fields. However, the approach based on the numerical analysis of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) composites, for which the fiber orientation and strain rate affect the mechanical properties, has proven to be challenging. The purpose of this study is to define and evaluate the mechanical properties of glass fiber reinforced plastic composites using the numerical analysis models of Digimat, a linear, nonlinear multi-scale modeling program for various composite materials such as polymers, rubber, metal, etc. In addition, the aim is to predict the behavior of realistic polymeric composites. In this regard, the tensile properties according to the fiber orientation and strain rate of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) with short fiber weight fractions of 30wt% among various polymers were investigated using references. Information on the fiber orientation was calculated based on injection analysis using Moldflow software, and was utilized in the finite element model for tensile specimens via a mapping process. LS-Dyna, an explicit commercial finite element code, was used for coupled analysis using Digimat to study the tensile properties of composites according to the fiber orientation and strain rate of glass fibers. In addition, the drawbacks and advantages of LS-DYNA's various anisotropic material models were compared and evaluated for the analysis of glass fiber reinforced plastic composites.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.71-78
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• 1999

The application range of injection molded parts is expanding by the development of engineering plastics with good mechanical properties. Plastic gears are specially used as automotive parts due to an excellent performance in the characteristics of a strength vs. weight, and the study of injection molding process of plastic gear using Nylon66 is performed in this study. Filling, packing and cooling analyses were done by using the simulation software like Moldflow, and a mold was designed by following the simulation results. Pin-point gates with three points were taken to satisfy the design guides like a full-shot, and lower clamping force and uniform shrinkage. Characteristics of shrinkage of molded gear and temperature difference between cavity and core sides of a mold were shown.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.316-319
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• 2002

Injection mold is a manufacturing process used to produce parts of complicated shape at a low cost. Many factors affect the quality of injection molded part during injection molding process. A study on the optimization of injection mold is progressed by using a simulation software like Moldflow. Filling, packing and cooling phases of injection molding processes are analyzed according to the mold design considering the shrinkage of molded part, the degree of filling rate and the wearing of a mold. Taguchi method is applied to analyze the significance of processing parameters and the dynamic characteristics according to the variation of processing parameters. From the results, the mold temperature and packing pressure influenced strongly the shrinkage of injection molded part.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.1245-1248
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• 2010

플라스틱은 가공이 용이하기 때문에 우리 생활에 널리 이용되고 있다. 과거에는 단순히 제품의 외장제로 이용되었지만 산업이 발달함에 따라 금속을 대체 할 정도로 사용 범위가 증가하고 있다. 또한 사용량이 증가함에 따라 제품의 생산량을 증가시키기 위해선 다수 캐비티의 금형 사용이 필수적으로 되었다. 다수 캐비티 사출성형에서 각 캐비티 간 제품의 품질 및 물성을 향상시키기 위해선 각 캐비티로 충전되는 수지가 균형을 이루어야 한다. 하지만 기하학적으로 균형을 갖추고 있는 러너를 설계하여도 실제 사출성형에서는 불균형 충전이 일어나게 된다. 이러한 불균형 충전은 미국의 Beaumont에 의해서 처음 규명된 뒤 충전불균형 현상을 해결하기 위해 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 본 논문에서는 다수 캐비티 사출성형에서 균형충전을 위한 러너시스템을 제안하였다. 이 러너시스템은 온도가 불균일한 수지의 흐름을 혼합함으로써 수지의 흐름을 균일하게 하여 균형충전을 이루도록 하였다. 또한 사출성형해석프로그램인 Moldflow를 이용한 유동해석을 통해 그 효과를 나타내 보았다.