I’m disappointed by a ‘bad’ Moldflow filling result. You can see briefly attached the behavior of the physical flow and the simulation.
Today there is a weld line which was not detected by Moldflow.
I tried to remesh the tetras along the edge of the component but the result is not better.
It’s dangerous because I can’t explain to my colleagues why we can’t trust the software only for this case. I hope that they will not think that is a generality.
What is your feeling about this topic?
PS : It's an Outer Lens Component for rear lamp product injected by PMMA 8N
Unfortunatly it's not possible to upload the part.
But the observation is very simple. There is a weld line which is not intented by Moldflow because the flow front behavior is not the same that the physical process. The velocity is higher along the edge of the part.
I would suggest looking at the mesh in that area. If it's dual-domain, make sure the thickness is correct to show the thicker edge. Not matter what the mesh type is, make sure there are enough elements along the edge to pick up the flow/weld line. (ie, if your mesh size is 1", and the flow leader along the edge is only 1/2", then it won't pick up the flow difference)
You could always try turning inertia effects on. Sometimes this helps. But it makes it tricky when you need to simulate things correctly in the first place, not after the fact.
Tim
Thanks for your advices Tim,
This simulation was done by 3D model. I remeshed localy the edge to 10 elements (see the picture attached) and a ratio close to 1 but there was no effect on result.
Concerning the inertia effect I already tested it but I guess that it's not really significative for a thin part (2.5 mm). But I can launch one for test.
François
Hmm. Your mesh looks more than adequate to pick up any flow differences. Again, you could try inertia, but I agree with you that it typically doesn't help unless your fill speed is really fast.
Best of luck.
Hello,
its complicated without seeing the whole mesh, but sometimes it can be usefull to mesh 3d with 12 and more layer. And it could be better in your case to mesh the whole part with finer mesh density. What moldflow version do you use?
What quality is your material file. Gold?
if you send me the cad file by peronal mail, iI would test it for you. Should be fast enaough my maschine. 2 processors 96GB.
Philipp
Hi Francois,
I need a little bit more information flow to my ear because you are not able to publish the model itself.
This inputs can help me to capture the problem conditions more then yet and brings us hopefully to an helpful answer.
br, Anton
Hi Francois,
It's the first time I see this kind of bad flow results.
It seems that your study doesn't considers cooling lines. What I suggest is checking the cooling parameters and temperature distribution during the trial. In fact the mold temperature may be not so uniform, this could explain such big difference from moldflow study.
I think this trouble can come from the shear heating.
Due to the simplified approach of most common mold-filling simulation software, the shear influence on the polymer flow is not diagnosed properly.
Look at this :
http://www.beaumontinc.com/files/documents/mf-9-flowanalysis-742007.pdf
http://www.beaumontinc.com/rheological-control/meltflipper-design-services/meltflipper-max/
http://aucache.autodesk.com/au2011/sessions/4447/class_handouts/v1_MA4447-P-J.Beaumont%20Handout.pdf
http://www.sigmasoft.de/casestudy-category/plastics-applications/
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