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Simulation of cooling of polyurethane coated vehicle steering wheel

El-Cezeri Journal of Science and Engineering, ISSN: 2148-3736, Vol: 7, Issue: 2, Page: 592-602
2020
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The cooling of injection-molded plastics during production is of great importance. If the plastic material in the injection mold is cooled properly and slowly, the risk of cracking and stret ching in the product is minimized. Therefore, the location, position and characteristics of the cooling channels are extremely important when designing the mold. It is not possible to determine the optimum cooling conditions by experimental study on molds with complex geometries. Therefore, the simulation of the model is important in terms of both cost and time. In this study, the effect of the roughness coefficient of the cooling channels, the flow rate of the refrigerant and the diameter of the channel on the cooling of the steering wheel of the polyurethane coated vehicle injected into the mold were modeled by simulation. First of all, the effect of different mold materials on the cooling of the injected plastic was investigated. It was determined that the plastic in the mold made of steel material was found to cool down in a longer time. Then the surface roughness values in the channel 0.045mm, 0.45mm and 4.5mm, flow rate of 4lt/min, 8lt/min and 16lt/min and channel diameters 0.5cm, 1cm and 2cm were analyzed. As a result, cooling time was decreased by 24.2% when the channel diameter was decreased by 75%, and decreased by 64.6% when the flow rate quadrupled.

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Burak Türkan; Akın Burak Etemoğlu; Ümit Çeğil

El-Cezeri: Journal of Science and Engineering

Computer Science; Chemistry; Chemical Engineering; Engineering; Physics and Astronomy

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