• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.931-937
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• 2004

Simultaneous filling is a goal in plastic injection mold that has multi cavities. The moldings which have not been filled at the same time have undesired faults such as dimension inaccuracy, residual stress, law mechanical strength, etc. The best way to simultaneous fill is to be injected in a geometrically balanced runner system. In a general processing, however, in balanced runner system mold, filling imbalance would be observed in cavities. These phenomena result from molten polymer's characteristics and circumstances in balanced runner. In this study, the degree of filling imbalance (DFI) was defined for showing rate of filling imbalance in geometrically balanced injection mold that has 8 cavities. Before the main experiment, an injection molding simulation was conducted to know a pattern of filling imbalance with Moldflow software. There were somewhat differences between results of experiment and simulation about the filling imbalance. The reason for the difference was that the software have not concerned about a situation in a real flow channel. It was also investigated how the injection speed affected on filling imbalance in the experiment.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.386-391
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• 2022

The gas insulation switchgear, which is a device for protecting a power system, cannot be supported by the insulation gas itself in a charge unit stored in a metal container. Therefore, molding technology is required to manufacture a gas insulation switch spacer. The APG method injection molding simulation was performed by applying the variables obtained through the physical properties of an epoxy composite used for manufacturing an insulating spacer to a moldflow software. After varying the temperature conditions of heater in the simulation, the thermal characteristics and the degree of hardening of the spacer were analyzed, based on which the optimum process conditions are presented.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.426-432
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• 2021

Injection molding is used in many industrial fields such as home appliances, vehicle parts, and electronic device parts because various resins can be molded, leading to mass production of complex shapes. Generally, the empirical prediction method is used to set the initial processing conditions of injection molding. However, this approach requires a lot of cost and its presented solution is not accurate. In this paper, injection molding was simulated through the Moldflow^TM in order to manufacture the spacer for gas insulated switch. Through the simulation, the flow of the resin with respect to the diameter of the inlet was analyzed. It was found that the process was possible at a higher resin temperature as the diameter of the inlet increased. In addition, through thermal analysis during injection of the resin, it was confirmed that a stagnation phenomenon occurred at the insert portion during injection molding, and the temperature of the resin was higher than that of the mold. As in this paper, if the spacer is manufactured by optimizing the injection hole and the temperature of the injection process based on simulation, it is expected that the spacer can be manufactured with high productivity.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2015

사출성형은 플라스틱 제품의 대량생산에 적합한 제조기술이지만 사출성형공정에서 사출품의 휨 변형이 항상 문제가 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 전자동 정제분류 포장시스템의 호퍼 제품을 기존의 ABS 수지에서 PP 수지로 변경하는 경우에 생기는 사출품의 휨 변형을 최소로 하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. Moldflow 소프트웨어를 이용하여 호퍼의 사출성형 공정을 해석하여 호퍼의 휨 변형을 최소로 하기위한 게이트의 형상과 리브 형상을 결정하였으며 실 제품의 사출성형을 통해 사출성형 해석결과의 타당성을 입증하였다. 결정성 수지인 PP 재료의 사출성형 시에는 유동선단의 면적이 넒은 경우가 유리하며 리브를 보강하는 것이 휨 변형을 줄일 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.490-498
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• 2010

K사의 방진고무 사출성형에 있어서 애로사항인 토크로드부시(torque rod bush)의 캐비티 가장자리(edge) 구간에서의 에어트랩(air-trap) 발생 및 다이내믹 댐퍼(dynamic damper)에 있어서 사출시 미성형(short shot) 발생 등의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여, 상용 CAE 프로그램인 MOLDFLOW(Ver. 5.2)를 이용한 전산모사를 수행하여 적정금형설계를 도출하고 적정작업조건을 구축하였다. 그 결과 방진고무 중에서 토크로드부시의 사출성형에서의 에어트랩 발생 등의 공정문제를 최적 캐비티 가장자리 경사각 및 게이트 수를 조절함으로써 캐비티 가장자리에서의 유동선단(flow-front)의 유동정체를 방지하고 유동을 원활하게 하여 해결하였다. 한편 다이내믹 댐퍼의 사출시 충전(filling) 단계에서의 캐비티 비충전으로 인한 미성형 불량은 에어벤트(air-vent) 구를 에어트랩 발생 빈도가 매우 높은 유동선단 상향류와 하향류의 두 흐름이 만나는 지점에 설치함으로써 미성형 불량을 해결하였다. 또한 게이트 위치를 댐퍼 상단에서 중단으로 변경하거나 게이트 수를 증가시킨 경우에 미성형 불량이 K사의 경우보다 개선되었다.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2003

A vertebral cage is a hollow medical device which is used in spine forgery. By implanting the cage into the spine column, it is possible to restore disc and relieve pressure on the nerve roots. Most cages have been made of titanium alloys but they detract the biocompatibility. Currently PEEK (polyether ether ketone) if applied to various implants because it has good properties like heat resistance, chemical resistance, strength, and especially biocompatibility. A new shape of vertebral cage is designed and injection molding of PEEK is considered for production. Before injection molding of the cage, it is needed to evaluate process conditions and properties of the final product. Variables affecting the shrinkage of the cage are considered, e.g., injection time, packing pressure, mold temperature, and melt temperature. By using the numerical simula-tion program, MOLDFLOW, several cases are studied. Data files obtained by MOLDFLOW analysis are used for stress anal-ysis with ABAQUS, and shrinkage and residual stress fields are predicted. With these results, optimum process conditions are determined.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.56-62
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• 2024

By introducing curing kinetics and chemo-rheology for the epoxy resin formulation for ultra-high voltage gas insulated switchgear (GIS) Insulating Spacers, a study was conducted to simulate the curing behavior, flow and warpage analysis for optimization of the molding process in automatic pressure gelation. The curing rate equation and chemo-rheology equation were set as fixed values for various factors and other physical property values, and the APG molding process conditions were entered into the Moldflow software to perform optimization numerical simulations of the three-phase insulating spacer. Changes in curing shrinkage according to pack pressure were observed under the optimized process conditions. As a result, it was confirmed that the residence time in the solid state was shortened due to the lowest curing reaction when the curing holding pressure was 3 bar, and the occurrence of deformation due to internal residual stress was minimized.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.224-233
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• 1999

The quality of injection molded parts is affected by the variables such as materials, design variables of part and mold, molding machine, and processing conditions. It is difficult to consider all the variables at the same time to predict the quality. In this paper neural network was applied to analyze the relationship between processing conditions and volumetric shrinkage of part. Engineering plastic gear was used for the study, and the learning data was extracted by the simulation software like Moldflow. Results of neural network was good agreement with simulation results. Nonlinear regression model was formulated using the test data of 3,125 obtained from neural network, Optimal processing conditions were calculated to minimize the volumetric shrinkage of molded part by the application of RQP(Recursive Quadratic Programming) algorithm.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2014

치과에서 사용되는 구강 치료용 요오드 용기는 개폐 시 용기의 캡에 부착되어 있는 칼날에 의해 치료용 실은 절단이 된다. 금속의 칼날은 요오드 용액과 반응하여 단기간에 부식이 되는 문제로 인해 환자의 위생에도 영향을 준다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 최근 세라믹 칼날로 대체되어진 제품들도 개발되어 생산되는데, 이때 세라믹 칼날은 수작업과 기계가공을 통해 만들어 진다. 본 연구에서는 세라믹 칼날을 분말사출성형공정으로 대량 생산할 수 있도록 20Cavity의 균일 충전을 위한 유동 시스템을 제안하였다. Moldflow를 이용하여 20cavity 유동성에 대한 시뮬레이션을 진행하였고, 금형제작과 수정을 통해 금형을 완성하였다. 사출성형 후 탈지와 소결공정을 통해 완성하고, 금형에 세라믹 칼날을 인서트 사출하여 캡 제품을 완성하였다. 본 연구를 통해 유효한 절단 성능을 갖는 세라믹칼날 대량생산 가능성을 검증하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.271-277
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• 2006

사출 성형 공정은 저비용으로 고품질의 제품을 대량으로 얻을 수 있는 제조 공정이지만. 성형품의 품질에 영향을 주는 인자의 수가 너무 많아 모든 경우에 대하여 실험을 수행하는 것은 시간적, 경제적으로 불가능하다. 따라서 최근에 시뮬레이션 도구를 활용하여 이러한 실험을 보조하고 있고, 실험계획법 및 여러 가지 최적화 기법들이 다루어지고 있다. 인자수가 많은 경우 각 입력인자 간의 교호작용 등도 고려하면서도 실험 횟수를 줄이는 기법으로 정립된 실험계획법을 적용하여 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어를 이용한 모의 실험 데이터를 도출하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 주변의 잡음에서도 강건한 설계를 할 수 있는 다구찌 기법을 사출 성형 공정에 적용하여 최적의 사출 성형 공정 조건을 나타내었다.