Effect of Different Shapes of Conformal Cooling Channel on the Parameters of Injection Molding

• 作者: Kishor M.Ashtankar Mahesh S.Shinde
• 来源期刊: 计算机、材料和连续体(英文)
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: Injection MOLD CONFORMAL COOLING channels COOLING simulation rapid TOOLING
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（3）
• 页码范围: 287-306
• 页数: 20页
• 分类号: F20

摘要

Cooling system improvement is important in injection molding to get betterquality and productivity. The aim of this paper was to compare the different shapes of theconformal cooling channels (CCC) with constant surface area and CCC with constantvolume in injection molding using Mold-flow Insight 2016 software. Also the CCC resultswere compared with conventional cooling channels. Four different shapes of the CCC suchas circular, elliptical, rectangular and semi-circular were proposed. The locations of thecooling channels were also kept constant. The results in terms of cooling time, cycle timereduction and improvement in quality of the product shows that no significant effect ofCCC’s shapes when surface area of CCC kept constant. On the other hand, the rectangularCCC shows better result as compared to other shapes of CCC when volume of CCC werekept constant.