The formability of sheet blanks in the product under conditions of intense heat

Abstract

When forming products from thermoplastic polymers and compositions on their basis, including sheet blanks, are passing heat and mechanical processes, which require special study: heating and cool-ing, viscous-plastic flow, sealing and shrinkage, the deformation of viscous stretching, consolidation. For sheet workpieces made of recycled polypropylene it was determined the kinetics of cooling in two modes: convective heat transfer in air and contact heat exchange in the chilled form. The work-pieces sheets for the study were obtained at the extrusion head of the manifold type. When molding product the experiment took place in conditions that are very close to real. Temperature measurement was carried out on the surface and in the center of the workpiece. To obtain the temperature profile across the thickness of the blank numerical analysis on the basis of the solution of the heat equation for one-dimensional flow was carried out. It is shown that the results of analytical calculation and experiment correlate well. The derived dependences used to determine the magnitude of the visco-fluid layer by thickness of the workpiece, which ensures the formab ility of the material in the fina l product, as well as to identify the optimal temperature and time parameters, while ensuring the adhesion bonds between the two heat-ed molds in the process of forming a composite product.