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Modeling of Infrared Heating of Thermoplastic Sheet Used in Thermoforming Process

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Thermoforming consists of warming a plastic sheet and forming it into a cavity or over a tool using vacuum, air pressure and mechanical means. The process begins by heating a thermoplastic sheet slightly above the glass transition temperature, for amorphous polymers, or slightly below the melting point, for semi-crystalline materials. As the final thickness distribution of the part is drastically controlled by the initial temperature distribution inside the sheet, it is very important to optimise the heating stage. In most of the thermoforming machine, this step is performed using an infrared oven constituted of long waves infrared emitters. The goal of this study is to determine the efficiency of short waves infrared emitters (halogen lamps) for the heating step. The infrared heating of thermoplastic sheets will be modelled following two steps: an experimental setup developed in our laboratory permits to measure the influence of parameters such as heaters temperature, incidence of the radiation, heat transfer coefficient ,.. An 880 LW AGEMA infrared camera is used to evaluate the surface distribution of the transmitted heat flux by measuring the temperature distribution on the surface of the thermoplastic sheet. In addition, a numerical model using control-volume method (software called PLASTIRAD) has been developed to simulate the heating stage. In particular, it takes into account the spectral properties of both heaters and plastic sheet as well as the heaters directivity. Comparisons between experimental data and numerical simulations allow validating the numerical model using different types of emitters and polystyrene (PS).
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hal-02055829 , version 1 (04-04-2019)

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Fabrice Schmidt, Yannick Le Maoult, S Monteix. Modeling of Infrared Heating of Thermoplastic Sheet Used in Thermoforming Process. International Conference on Advances in Materials And Processing Technologies (AMPT), Sep 2001, Leganes, Spain. ⟨10.1016/S0924-0136(03)00291-7⟩. ⟨hal-02055829⟩
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