THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION EFFECTS IN INJECTION MOLDED SEMI-CRYSTALLINE THERMOPLASTIC PARTS

摘要

The competitiveness of companies operating in high-wage countries today is depending heavily on a fast and at the same time very precise part design. Inhomogeneous inner properties have a direct influence on the local mechanical properties and therefore also on the global part performance of injection molded parts. To enable a precise prediction of part properties a software is being developed at IKV which allows the prediction of locally determined inner properties like the morphology resulting from process parameters and geometry. The paper includes the aspects mentioned above and gives a prospect on future works in this field of simulation and materials technology.