NDLI: Cycletime Reduction by Forced Air Cooling for Hot Plate Welding

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Author	Hoffschlag, Reinhild Schöppner, Volker Schnieders, Joachim Friedrich, Norman Gövert, Stefan
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Hot plate welding is one of the most popular methods for joining plastics by utilizing heat conduction to plasticize and join thermoplastics. In comparison to competitive welding processes, hot plate welding generates high weld seam qualities but is characterized by a long cycle time; from 20 s, for small parts, to about 30 min. Cycle time itself is dominated by the cooling time. This paper reports on the influence of different cooling methods to reduce the cooling time for hot plate welding of polymers. In the initial investigations, water and nitrogen were used as cooling media (free convection) and were compared with compressed air (forced convection). The results of the initial investigations lead to more detailed analyses of forced cooling by compressed air. In the subsequent investigations, different parameters of compressed air were examined to reduce cooling time while retaining the weld seam quality. The parameters of compressed air: air flow, temperature and humidity were analysed to optimize the cooling time for amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers. It was found that the reduction of cooling time by compressed air leads to good results. Cooling time savings of 85 % could be achieved. Additionally, the weld seam quality was investigated by measuring the weld seam strength and analysing residual stresses. The weld seam strength is not influenced by the cooling method, but the cooling method influences the size of the stress field of the welded specimens.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	107
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00432288
Journal	Welding in the World
Volume Number	56
Issue Number	3-4
e-ISSN	18786669
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2013-03-19
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Metallic Materials Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Mechanics of Materials Metals and Alloys Mechanical Engineering

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