A study of flow analysis and moulding simulations of highly filled polymers

The overall aim of this research is to emphasise the importance of advanced flow analysis, prior to injection moulding for both unfilled and highly filled polymer melts. It is becoming more and more common to predict, via elaborated package software, the polymer behaviour during injection. The main reasons to do so, are firstly to optimize the finish part quality and in the second time to limit unnecessary cost related to eventual mould afterward modifications. For various reasons, this project proposes a global comparison of simulated behaviours With the experimental data obtained during the moulding process. [Continues.]