Study on the flow situations of lightguiding plates by micro injection molding

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Abstract

This study investigates the flow characteristics of microinjection-molded lightguiding plates. This study also analyzes the position of melt fronts on lightguiding plates. Viscous heating, temperature and velocity distribution are utilized to analyze delay or advancement of the melt front experimentally and using three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulation. A slow injection speed reduces viscous heating. As viscous heating decreases, the temperature distribution decreases and plastic viscosity increases. A high plastic viscosity increases flow resistance and melt plastic velocity decreases. The advancing melt front of a lightguiding plate is delayed in this situation. The key of this research is that the plastic melt front can arrive the end position at the same time on filling stage of lightguiding plate for microinjection molding. In this research, the authors find increasing the injection speed can help the previous situation. Experimental results demonstrate that filling in the experiment is very close to that in 3D numerical simulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Materials Science, CMS 2011
Pages123-128
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event2011 International Conference on Computational Materials Science, CMS 2011 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: Apr 17 2011Apr 18 2011

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume268-270
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Other

Other2011 International Conference on Computational Materials Science, CMS 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period4/17/114/18/11

Keywords

  • Lightguiding plate
  • Melt front
  • Microinjection molding
  • Viscous heating

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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