Gary F. Schiller
A Practical Approach to Scientific Molding
Preface
7
About the Author
9
Contents
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1 Injection Unit: Screw
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1.1 Prepares the Melt
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1.2 Flows the Melt
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1.3 Pressurizes the Melt
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1.4 Sections of the Screw
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1.4.1 Feed Zone
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1.4.2 Transition or Compression Zone
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1.4.3 Metering Zone
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1.5 L/D or Length/Diameter
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1.6 Compression Ratio
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1.7 Profile
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1.8 Injection Pressure
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1.9 Injection High Limit Fill Time
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1.10 Injection Pack Pressure/Time
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1.11 Injection Hold Pressure/Time
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1.12 Non-return Valve Function
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1.13 Different Styles of Non-return Valves
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1.14 Decompression/Pull Back/Suck Back
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1.15 Screw Rotate Delay
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1.16 Mixing Head on a Reciprocating Screw
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1.17 Barrier Screws
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2 Injection Unit: Barrel
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2.1 Barrel
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2.2 Thermocouples
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2.3 Heater Bands
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2.4 Spacing of Heater Bands
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2.5 Wattage
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2.6 Worn Barrel
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2.7 Feed Throat
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2.8 Venting of the Barrel
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2.9 Hopper
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2.10 Hopper Dryer Diagram
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2.11 Filter Packs/Dispersion Disks/Screen Packs
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3 Clamping Unit
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3.1 Hydraulic
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3.2 Toggle
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3.3 Weakness
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3.4 Tie-Bar-Less
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3.5 Single Point
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3.6 Platen Wrap
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3.7 Mold Coverage Area
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3.8 Cleanliness of the Platens
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3.9 Care of Bolt Holes
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3.10 Proper Bolt Location
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3.11 Weight of Mold Calculations
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3.12 Mold Height
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3.13 Calculating Clamp Tonnage for a Press
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4 Ejectors/Controllers, Human Machine Interface (HMI)
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4.1 Ejector Pattern and Spacing
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4.2 Ejector Spacing
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4.3 Controllers
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4.3.1 Open Loop
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4.3.2 Closed Loop
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4.4 Key Pads
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5 Machine Performance Testing
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5.1 Rear Barrel Zone Optimization
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5.2 Load Sensitivity
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5.2.1 Purge Disk
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5.3 Pressure Response
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5.4 Dynamic Non-return Valve Test (FILL)
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5.5 Static Non-return Valve Test (PACK/HOLD)
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5.6 Injection Speed Linearity
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6 Process Development Test
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6.1 Tonnage Calculation/Projected Area
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6.2 On Machine Rheology Curve (Viscosity Curve) or Fill Time Study
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6.3 Construction of Viscosity Curve Graph
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6.4 Least Pressure Curve
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6.5 Plastic Flow Rate (Qp)
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6.6 Shear Rates
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6.7 Gate Freeze, Gate Seal, or Gate Stabilization
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6.8 Runner Weight Study
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6.9 Range Finding for Gate Seal
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6.10 Manifold Imbalance and Balance of Fill Analysis
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6.11 Cooling Optimization Study
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6.12 Pressure Loss Study
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7 Plastic Temperature
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7.1 Molecular Structure of Common Materials
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7.2 Morphology
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7.2.1 Amorphous Resin Morphology
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7.2.2 Semi-Crystalline Resin Morphology
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7.3 Glass Transition Temperature (Tg)
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7.4 Melt Transition Temperature (Tm)
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7.5 Shrinkage
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7.5.1 Isotropic Shrinkage
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7.5.2 Anisotropic Shrinkage
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7.6 Melt Density versus Solid Density
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7.7 Advantages/Disadvantages of Hot Runner versus Cold Runner
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7.8 Induced Shear through a Hot or Cold Runner System
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8 Plastic Flow
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8.1 Fountain Flow
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8.2 Flow of Plastic
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8.3 How to Calculate Flow Rate (Qp)
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8.4 Calculating Volume of Shot Size
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8.5 Blocking a Cavity
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8.6 Flow through a Mold
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8.7 Orientation
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8.8 Transfer/Cut-Off Position
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8.9 Viscosity Changes
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8.10 Intensifying Ratio (Ri)
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8.11 Pressure Limited Process
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8.12 Safe Start-Up Shot Size
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8.13 Runner Sizing
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9 Plastic Pressure (Pack/Hold)
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9.1 Plastic Pressure
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9.2 Dynamic versus Static
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9.3 Viscosity Changes
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9.4 End of Cavity Pressure Loss
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9.5 Part Shrinkage versus Cavity Pressure
110
9.6 Maximum Average Pressure at Parting Line before Flashing
111
10 Cooling
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10.1 Plastic Cooling
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10.2 Turbulent versus Laminar Flow
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10.3 Reynolds Number
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10.4 Water Lines
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10.5 Area of Water Line
119
10.6 Series/Parallel
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10.7 Cooling Rate
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10.8 Ineffective Cooling
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10.9 Cooling Time
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10.10 Depth, Diameter, and Pitch
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10.11 Baffles/Bubblers
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10.12 How a Thermolator/Mold Heater Works
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11 Benchmarking the Injection Molding Process
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12 Process Troubleshooting
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12.1 Black Specks
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12.2 Blush
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12.3 Brittleness
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12.4 Burns
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12.5 Burns in Gates
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12.6 Cloudy Parts
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12.7 Color Streaks
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12.8 Deformation: Ejector Pin Marks
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12.9 Degraded Polymer
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12.10 Design
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12.11 Fish Hooks
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12.12 Flash
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12.13 Flow Lines
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12.14 Hot Tip Drool
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12.15 Jetting
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12.16 Long Gates
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12.17 Nozzle Drool
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12.18 Parts Sticking in Mold
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12.19 Pulls
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12.20 Shorts/Non-Fills
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12.21 Sinks
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12.22 Splay
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12.23 Sprue Sticking
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12.24 Surface Imperfections
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12.25 Voids
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12.26 Warpage
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12.27 Weld Lines
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13 What is Important on a Set-Up Sheet?
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14 Commonly Used Conversion Factors and Formulas
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14.1 Conversion Factors
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14.2 Common Formulas for Injection Molding
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15 Machine Set-Up
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16 Things That Hurt the Bottom Line of a Company
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17 Terms and Definitions
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18 Reference List for Further Courses and Reading
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18.1 Courses
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18.2 Reading
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Index
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