Evaluation and Transport of the Crystallization Heat in an Iterative Self-consistent Multi-scale Simulation of Semi-crystalline Thermoplastics

Autor: Jonathan Alms, Gottfried Laschet, Christian Hopmann
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering ISBN: 9783030703318
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-70332-5_20
Popis: In the injection molding process of semi-crystalline thermoplastics, the melt is subjected to a complex deformation and temperature history. This leads to an inhomogeneous microstructure over the component and thus to local inhomogeneities in the component’s effective properties. To predict the component properties precisely, a multi-scale simulation is used, which couples the filling simulation at the component level with a microstructure simulation at the scales of microns (SphaeroSim). The influence of the crystallization heat is considered in the filling simulation with an averaged empirically determined degree of crystallization. To achieve higher precision in the microstructure simulation the influence of the crystallization heat is considered at the microscale of SphaeroSim. SphaeroSim is extended by the calculation of a local crystallization degree, which is used to calculate the amount of local crystallization heat and heat transport calculations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE