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JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE PART B-PHYSICS
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 206-221Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00222348.2012.700234
Keywords
neural network; plastic injection molding; process parameter; shrinkage
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The effects of process parameters, mold temperature (T-mo), melt temperature (T-me), cooling time (t(c)), fill pressure (P-f), packing pressure (P-p), and packing time (t(p)) on the shrinkage of injection molded polypropylene were investigated by utilizing a combination of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method and Moldflow software. An ANN model is developed to understand the relationship between plastic injection molding process parameters and shrinkage. The test results on the performance of the ANN model show that it can predict the shrinkage with reasonable accuracy. The simulation results show that the most important process parameter affecting shrinkage is P-p, followed by T-me and T-mo, with t(c), P-f, and t(p) having the least effect. Shrinkage increases with the elevated T-mo and t(c). In contrast, the increases in P-p, T-me, t(p), and P-f cause shrinkage to decrease. The strongest effect on the shrinkage is the amount of material forced into the mold, followed by the crystallinity and orientation of the material.
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