Chapter 20,How Does Plastic Flow?

Design Example: Optimizing gates and ram speed profile Purpose of this example This example illustrates various aspects of the power of CAE software for the plastics industry, and how such software can be strategically applied. It shows how to put into practice many...

Chapter 21, Mold cooling system overview

Mold cooling system overview Importance of cooling system design Mold cooling accounts for more than two-thirds of the total cycle time in the production of injection molded thermoplastic parts. Figure 1 illustrates this point. An efficient cooling circuit design...

Chapter 22,Cooling-channel configuration

Cooling-channel configuration Types of cooling channels Cooling-channel configurations can be serial or parallel. Both configurations are illustrated in Figure 1 below. FIGURE 1. Cooling-channel configurations Parallel cooling channels Parallel cooling channels are...

Chapter 23,Alternative cooling devices

What do they do? Baffles and bubblers are sections of cooling lines that divert the coolant flow into areas that would normally lack cooling. Cooling channels are typically drilled through the mold cavity and core. The mold, however, may consist of areas too far away...

Chapter 24, Cooling system equations

Cooling time Theoretically, cooling time is proportional to the square of the heaviest part wall thickness or the power of 1.6 for the largest runner diameter. That is: where the thermal diffusivity of polymer melt is defined as In other words, doubling the wall...
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