英文翻译自动布局设计的塑料注射模却系统.docxVIP

1. Introduction The function of the cooling system of a plastic injection mould is to provide thermal regulation in the injection moulding process. When the hot plastic melt enters into the mould impression, it cools down and solidi?es by dissipating heat through the cooling system. As the cooling phase generally accounts for about two-thirds of the total cycle time of the injection moulding process, ef?cient cooling is very important to the productivity of the process.The cooling system also plays an important role in the product quality. A cooling system that provides uniform cooling across the entire part ensures product quality by preventing differential shrinkage, internal stresses, and mould release problems. In addition to the functional aspects, the design of a cooling system should also consider the manufacturability of the system to control the cost of mould construction. The process of cooling system design is a complicated process and can be distinguished into three phases: preliminary design, layout design, and detail design. Although, CAD/CAM systems are widely used in the design of injection moulds, they are mainly limited to providing geometric modeling tools in the detail design phase. Specialized stand-alone or add-on software packages that provide interactive geometric modeling tools for designing various components or sub-systems of the mould structure are also commercially available. However, limited research works on automation tools that can play a more active role in the preliminary and layout design phases have been reported. In a previous research project, we developed a feature-based method which creates the preliminary design automatically [1,2]. Given a plastic part with a complex shape, the feature-based method decomposes the part into simpler shape features, called cooling features. Cooling sub-circuits are then generated automatically to provide the required cooling function for each recognized feature. In the present research, automa