Posts by Mandy Beaumont

Beaumont’s NEW Molding Genius

ERIE, PA – Beaumont Technologies is excited to announce that we have released our latest molding innovation that our industry can benefit from for no charge.


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LinkedIn Answer: Is this mold balanced?

Original Question: Assuming steel is uniform which cavities will fill first?

 


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Beaumont Technologies Acquires Autodesk® MoldFlow®’s Material Characterization Business

Beaumont Technologies, Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Autodesk® MoldFlow® material characterization business that services North America and Europe. The operations, laboratory equipment and proprietary software will be transferred from Ithaca, NY to a new facility in Erie, PA where Beaumont is headquartered.


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Eight-Cavity LinkedIn Mold Answer and Explanation

Original Question: Assuming steel is uniform which cavities will fill first?
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Understanding Rheology

Facts about plastic flow that help explain shear imbalances:

  • Plastic viscosity is affected by shear rate
  • As shear rate increases, viscosity decreases (non-Newtonian)
  • Plastic viscosity is also affected by temperature
  • As temperature increases, viscosity decreases

 

  • Plastic has a laminar flow. No turbulence!! Reynolds numbers are often less than 10. Full turbulence requires a Reynolds number of 4000. Transition zone 2300-4000. Highest Shear Rate is just inside the frozen layer
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  • Highest Shear Rate is just inside the frozen layer. Shear-thinning and shear-heating reduces viscosity in these laminates.
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  • Due to the laminar flow, when plastic encounters a feature such as a intersection in a runner system, the hotter, less viscous plastic hugs the corner and travels along the outside wall, creating a cavity to cavity imbalance.
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  • Cross sections of runner channels showing position of higher sheared, hotter, less viscous material in red. Material that has experienced less shear heating is marked with blue.
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    Mold Number: LinkedIn
    Current Conditions:

  • The red lines again represent the higher sheared, less viscous material; the blue lines shows the less sheared more viscous material.  Various melt properties will be distributed to and across the cavities.  The various melt properties will result in 2 Flow Groups (FG) as shown below.picture7

    Expectations:

  • Cavities that receive the high sheared, less viscous material will fill before the cavities that will receive the low sheared, more viscous material.
  • Dimensional variations, due to volumetric and orientation induced shrinkage differences,  may result between the cavities as a result in the variation the melt distribution properties

 

Answer to

LinkedIn Mold:

Cavities 2,4,5,and 7


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Beaumont Teams Up With Sodick Plustech

Read why Beaumont Technologies chooses Sodick Plustech machines.


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Beaumont Welcomes New Regional Sales Manager

CHARLOTTE, NC —Matt Piatek has joined Beaumont Technologies, a global plastics engineering leader, in the role of regional sales manager for the southeast region of the United States.


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Beaumont’s Holiday Party

Beaumont employees brought their yuletide cheer to the annual holiday party. This year employees played a few games of duck-pin bowling, ate lots of food and had a merry ‘ol time! Check out some of the evening’s highlights below…


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