Modeling and measuring the bonding strength of overmolded polymer parts

Autor: Anna Szuchács, Tatyana Ageyeva, József Gábor Kovács
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Polymer Testing, Vol 125, Iss , Pp 108133- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0142-9418
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2023.108133
Popis: Overmolding a polymer onto a polymer substrate is a versatile plastic processing technique already widely used in industry and has a high potential to customize mass-produced polymer parts. Even though the industry is ready for this technology, there are still no engineering calculation methods to predict the strength of overmolded parts. None of the available engineering software packages contains the modeling of bonding strength between a polymer substrate and an overmolded element of the same material. This is because the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of bonding and the lack of a unified adhesion theory. In this study, we developed a unique modeling method that can accurately predict the bonding strength of the interface formed between a substrate and an overmolded element for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The method combines the analytical modeling of reptation, the numerical modeling of overmolding, the modeling of tensile tests, and the verification of the obtained modeling results with the tested ones. Our method has an average accuracy of over 90%.
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