電風(fēng)扇塑料葉片的注塑模具設(shè)計-注射模含12張CAD圖帶開題
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A technical note on the characterization of electroformed nickel shells for their application to injection molds
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一個描述電鑄鎳殼在注塑模具的應(yīng)用的技術(shù)研究
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A technical note on the characterization of electroformed nickel shells for their application to injection molds
Abstract
The techniques of rapid prototyping and rapid tooling have been widely developed during the last years. In this article, electroforming as a procedure to make cores for plastics injection molds is analysed. Shells are obtained from models manufactured through rapid prototyping using the FDM system. The main objective is to analyze the mechanical features of electroformed nickel shells, studying different aspects related to their metallographic structure, hardness, internal stresses and possible failures, by relating these features to the parameters of production of the shells with an electroforming equipment. Finally a core was tested in an injection mold.
Keywords: Electroplating; Electroforming; Microstructure; Nickel
1. Introduction
One of the most important challenges with which modern industry comes across is to offer the consumer better products with outstanding variety and time variability (new designs). For this reason, modern industry must be more and more competitive and it has to produce with acceptable costs. There is no doubt that combining the time variable and the quality variable is not easy because they frequently condition one another; the technological advances in the productive systems are going to permit that combination to be more efficient and feasible in a way that, for example, if it is observed the evolution of the systems and techniques of plastics injection, we arrive at the conclusion that, in fact, it takes less and less time to put a new product on the market and with higher levels of quality. The manufacturing technology of rapid tooling is, in this field, one of those technological advances that makes possible the improvements in the processes of designing and manufacturing injected parts. Rapid tooling techniques are basically composed of a collection of procedures that are going to allow us to obtain a mold of plastic parts, in small or medium series, in a short period of time and with acceptable accuracy levels. Their application is not only included in the field of making plastic injected pieces [1], [2] and [3], however, it is true that it is where they have developed more and where they find the highest output.
This paper is included within a wider research line where it attempts to study, define, analyze, test and propose, at an industrial level, the possibility of creating cores for injection molds starting from obtaining electroformed nickel shells, taking as an initial model a prototype made in a FDM rapid prototyping equipment.
It also would have to say beforehand that the electroforming technique is not something new because its applications in the industry are countless [3], but this research work has tried to investigate to what extent and under which parameters the use of this technique in the production of rapid molds is technically feasible. All made in an accurate and systematized way of use and proposing a working method.
2. Manufacturing process of an injection mold
The core is formed by a thin nickel shell that is obtained through the electroforming process, and that is filled with an epoxic resin with metallic charge during the integration in the core plate [4] This mold (Fig. 1) permits the direct manufacturing by injection of a type a multiple use specimen, as they are defined by the UNE-EN ISO 3167 standard. The purpose of this specimen is to determine the mechanical properties of a collection of materials representative industry, injected in these tools and its coMParison with the properties obtained by conventional tools.
Fig. 1.?Manufactured injection mold with electroformed core.
The stages to obtain a core [4], according to the methodology researched in this work, are the following:
(a) Design in CAD system of the desired object.
(b) Model manufacturing in a rapid prototyping equipment (FDM system). The material used will be an ABS plastic.
(c) Manufacturing of a nickel electroformed shell starting from the previous model that has been coated with a conductive paint beforehand (it must have electrical conductivity).
(d) Removal of the shell from the model.
(e) Production of the core by filling the back of the shell with epoxy resin resistant to high temperatures and with the refrigerating ducts made with copper tubes.
The injection mold had two cavities, one of them was the electroformed core and the other was directly machined in the moving platen. Thus, it was obtained, with the same tool and in the same process conditions, to inject simultaneously two specimens in cavities manufactured with different technologies.
3. Obtaining an electroformed shell: the equipment
Electrodeposition [5] and [6] is an electrochemical process in which a chemical change has its origin within an electrolyte when passing an electric current through it. The electrolytic bath is formed by metal salts with two submerged electrodes, an anode (nickel) and a cathode (model), through which it is made to pass an intensity coming from a DC current. When the current flows through the circuit, the metal ions present in the solution are transformed into atoms that are settled on the cathode creating a more or less uniform deposit layer.
The plating bath used in this work is formed by nickel sulfamate [7] and [8] at a concentration of 400?ml/l, nickel chloride (10?g/l), boric acid (50?g/l), Allbrite SLA (30?cc/l) and Allbrite 703 (2?cc/l). The selection of this composition is mainly due to the type of application we intend, that is to say, injection molds, even when the injection is made with fibreglass. Nickel sulfamate allows us to obtain an acceptable level of internal stresses in the shell (the tests gave results, for different process conditions, not superior to 50?MPa and for optimum conditions around 2?MPa). Nevertheless, such level of internal pressure is also a consequence of using as an additive Allbrite SLA, which is a stress reducer constituted by derivatives of toluenesulfonamide and by formaldehyde in aqueous solution. Such additive also favours the increase of the resistance of the shell when permitting a smaller grain. Allbrite 703 is an aqueous solution of biodegradable surface-acting agents that has been utilized to reduce the risk of pitting. Nickel chloride, in spite of being harmful for the internal stresses, is added to enhance the conductivity of the solution and to favour the uniformity in the metallic distribution in the cathode. The boric acid acts as a pH buffer.
The equipment used to manufacture the nickel shells tested has been as follows:
? Polypropylene tank: 600?mm?×?400?mm?×?500?mm in size.
? Three teflon resistors, each one with 800?W.
? Mechanical stirring system of the cathode.
? System for recirculation and filtration of the bath formed by a pump and a polypropylene filter.
? Charging rectifier. Maximum intensity in continuous 50?A and continuous current voltage between 0 and 16?V.
? Titanium basket with nickel anodes (Inco S-Rounds Electrolytic Nickel) with a purity of 99%.
? Gases aspiration system.
Once the bath has been defined, the operative parameters that have been altered for testing different conditions of the process have been the current density (between 1 and 22?A/dm2), the temperature (between 35 and 55?°C) and the pH, partially modifying the bath composition.
4. Obtained hardness
One of the most interesting conclusions obtained during the tests has been that the level of hardness of the different electroformed shells has remained at rather high and stable values. In Fig. 2, it can be observed the way in which for current density values between 2.5 and 22?A/dm2, the hardness values range from 540 and 580?HV, at pH 4?±?0.2 and with a temperature of 45?°C. If the pH of the bath is reduced at 3.5 and the temperature is 55?°C those values are above 520?HV and below 560?HV. This feature makes the tested bath different from other conventional ones composed by nickel sulfamate, allowing to operate with a wider range of values; nevertheless, such operativity will be limited depending on other factors, such as internal stress because its variability may condition the work at certain values of pH, current density or temperature. On the other hand, the hardness of a conventional sulfamate bath is between 200–250?HV, much lower than the one obtained in the tests. It is necessary to take into account that, for an injection mold, the hardness is acceptable starting from 300?HV. Among the most usual materials for injection molds it is possible to find steel for improvement (290?HV), steel for integral hardening (520–595?HV), casehardened steel (760–800?HV), etc., in such a way that it can be observed that the hardness levels of the nickel shells would be within the medium–high range of the materials for injection molds. The objection to the low ductility of the shell is compensated in such a way with the epoxy resin filling that would follow it because this is the one responsible for holding inwardly the pressure charges of the processes of plastics injection; this is the reason why it is necessary for the shell to have a thickness as homogeneous as possible (above a minimum value) and with absence of important failures such as pitting.
Fig. 2.?Hardness variation with current density. pH 4?±?0.2, T?=?45?°C.
5. Metallographic structure
In order to analyze the metallographic structure, the values of current density and temperature were mainly modified. The samples were analyzed in frontal section and in transversal section (perpendicular to the deposition). For achieving a convenient preparation, they were conveniently encapsulated in resin, polished and etched in different stages with a mixture of acetic acid and nitric acid. The etches are carried out at intervals of 15, 25, 40 and 50?s, after being polished again, in order to be observed afterwards in a metallographic microscope Olympus PME3-ADL 3.3×/10×.
Before going on to comment the photographs shown in this article, it is necessary to say that the models used to manufacture the shells were made in a FDM rapid prototyping machine where the molten plastic material (ABS), that later solidifies, is settled layer by layer. In each layer, the extruder die leaves a thread approximately 0.15?mm in diameter which is compacted horizontal and vertically with the thread settled inmediately after. Thus, in the surface it can be observed thin lines that indicate the roads followed by the head of the machine. These lines are going to act as a reference to indicate the reproducibility level of the nickel settled. The reproducibility of the model is going to be a fundamental element to evaluate a basic aspect of injection molds: the surface texture.
The tested series are indicated in Table 1.
Table 1.
Tested series
Series
pH
Temperature (°C)
Current density (A/dm2)
1
4.2?±?0.2
55
2.22
2
3.9?±?0.2
45
5.56
3
4.0?±?0.2
45
10.00
4
4.0?±?0.2
45
22.22
Fig. 3 illustrates the surface of a sample of the series after the first etch. It shows the roads originated by the FDM machine, that is to say that there is a good reproducibility. It cannot be still noticed the rounded grain structure. In Fig. 4, series 2, after a second etch, it can be observed a line of the road in a way less clear than in the previous case. In Fig. 5, series 3 and 2° etch it begins to appear the rounded grain structure although it is very difficult to check the roads at this time. Besides, the most darkened areas indicate the presence of pitting by inadequate conditions of process and bath composition.
Fig. 3.?Series 1 (×150), etch 1.
Fig. 4.?Series 2 (×300), etch 2.
Fig. 5.?Series 3 (×300), etch 2.
This behavior indicates that, working at a low current density and a high temperature, shells with a good reproducibility of the model and with a small grain size are obtained, that is, adequate for the required application.
If the analysis is carried out in a plane transversal to the deposition, it can be tested in all the samples and for all the conditions that the growth structure of the deposit is laminar (Fig. 6), what is very satisfactory to obtain a high mechanical resistance although at the expense of a low ductibility. This quality is due, above all, to the presence of the additives used because a nickel sulfamate bath without additives normally creates a fibrous and non-laminar structure [9]. The modification until a nearly null value of the wetting agent gave as a result that the laminar structure was maintained in any case, that matter demonstrated that the determinant for such structure was the stress reducer (Allbrite SLA). On the other hand, it was also tested that the laminar structure varies according to the thickness of the layer in terms of the current density.
Fig. 6.?Plane transversal of series 2 (×600), etch 2.
6. Internal stresses
One of the main characteristic that a shell should have for its application like an insert is to have a low level of internal stresses. Different tests at different bath temperatures and current densities were done and a measure system rested on cathode flexural tensiometer method was used. A steel testing control was used with a side fixed and the other free (160?mm length, 12.7?mm width and thickness 0.3?mm). Because the metallic deposition is only in one side the testing control has a mechanical strain (tensile or compressive stress) that allows to calculate the internal stresses. Stoney model [10] was applied and was supposed that nickel substratum thickness is enough small (3?μm) to influence, in an elastic point of view, to the strained steel part. In all the tested cases the most value of internal stress was under 50?MPa for extreme conditions and 2?MPa for optimal conditions, an acceptable value for the required application. The conclusion is that the electrolitic bath allows to work at different conditions and parameters without a significant variation of internal stresses.
7. Test of the injection mold
Tests have been carried out with various representative thermoplastic materials such as PP, PA, HDPE and PC, and it has been analysed the properties of the injected parts such as dimensions, weight, resistance, rigidity and ductility. Mechanical properties were tested by tensile destructive tests and analysis by photoelasticity. About 500 injections were carried out on this core, remaining under conditions of withstanding many more.
In general terms, important differences were not noticed between the behavior of the specimens obtained in the core and the ones from the machined cavity, for the set of the analysed materials. However in the analysis by photoelasticiy (Fig. 7) it was noticed a different tensional state between both types of specimens, basically due to differences in the heat transference and rigidity of the respective mold cavities. This difference explains the ductility variations more outstanding in the partially crystalline materials such as HDPE and PA 6.
Fig. 7.?Analysis by photoelasticity of injected specimens.
For the case of HDPE in all the analysed tested tubes it was noticed a lower ductility in the specimens obtained in the nickel core, quantified about 30%. In the case of PA 6 this value was around 50%.
8. Conclusions
After consecutive tests and in different conditions it has been checked that the nickel sulfamate bath, with the utilized additives has allowed to obtain nickel shells with some mechanical properties acceptable for the required application, injection molds, that is to say, good reproducibility, high level of hardness and good mechanical resistance in terms of the resultant laminar structure. The mechanical deficiencies of the nickel shell will be partially replaced by the epoxy resin that finishes shaping the core for the injection mold, allowing to inject medium series of plastic parts with acceptable quality levels.
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一個描述電鑄鎳殼在注塑模具的應(yīng)用的技術(shù)研究
摘要：
在過去幾年中快速成型技術(shù)及快速模具已被廣泛開發(fā)利用. 在本文中,使用電芯作為核心程序?qū)λ芰献⑸淠＞叻治? 通過差分系統(tǒng)快速成型制造外殼模型. 主要目的是分析電鑄鎳殼力學(xué)特征、 研究相關(guān)金相組織,硬度,內(nèi)部壓力等不同方面，由這些特征參數(shù)以生產(chǎn)電鑄設(shè)備的外殼. 最后一個核心是檢驗注塑模具.
關(guān)鍵詞：電鍍；電鑄；微觀結(jié)構(gòu)；鎳
1. 引言
現(xiàn)代工業(yè)遇到很大的挑戰(zhàn)，其中最重要的是怎么樣提供更好的產(chǎn)品給消費者,更多種類和更新?lián)Q代問題. 因此,現(xiàn)代工業(yè)必定產(chǎn)生更多的競爭性. 毫無疑問,結(jié)合時間變量和質(zhì)量變量并不容易,因為他們經(jīng)常彼此互為條件; 先進(jìn)的生產(chǎn)系統(tǒng)將允許該組合以更加有效可行的方式進(jìn)行，例如,如果是觀測注塑系統(tǒng)的轉(zhuǎn)變、 我們得出的結(jié)論是,事實上 一個新產(chǎn)品在市場上具有較好的質(zhì)量它需要越來越少的時間 快速模具制造技術(shù)是在這一領(lǐng)域, 中可以改善設(shè)計和制造注入部分的技術(shù)進(jìn)步. 快速模具制造技術(shù)基本上是一個中小型系列的收集程序，在很短的時間內(nèi)在可接受的精度水平基礎(chǔ)上讓我們獲得模具的塑料部件。其應(yīng)用不僅在更加廣闊而且生產(chǎn)也不斷增多。
本文包括了很廣泛的研究路線,在這些研究路線中我們可以嘗試去學(xué)習(xí)，定義，分析，測試，提出在工業(yè)水平方面的可行性，從核心的注塑模具制造獲取電鑄鎳殼，同時作為一個初始模型的原型在一個FDM設(shè)備上的快速成型。
不得不說的是,先進(jìn)的電鑄技術(shù)應(yīng)用在無數(shù)的行業(yè)，但這一研究工作調(diào)查到什么程度,并根據(jù)這些參數(shù),使用這種技術(shù)生產(chǎn)快速模具在技術(shù)上是可行的. 都產(chǎn)生一個準(zhǔn)確的，系統(tǒng)化使用的方法以及建議的工作方法.
2 制造過程的注塑模具
薄鎳外殼的核心是電鑄,獲得一個充滿epoxic金屬樹脂的一體化的核心板塊模具(圖1)允許直接制造注射型多用標(biāo)本，因為它們確定了新英格蘭大學(xué)英文國際表卓華組織3167標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。這樣做的目的是確定力學(xué)性能的材料收集代表行業(yè)。
該階段取得的核心[4]，根據(jù)這一方法研究了這項工作,有如下:
a,用CAD系統(tǒng)設(shè)計的理想對象
b模型制造的快速成型設(shè)備(頻分多路系統(tǒng)). 所用材料將是一個ABS塑料
c一個制造的電鑄鎳殼，已事先涂有導(dǎo)電涂料(必須有導(dǎo)電).
d無外殼模型
e核心的生產(chǎn)是背面外殼環(huán)氧樹脂的抗高溫與具有制冷的銅管管道.
有兩個腔的注塑模具、 其中一個是電核心和其他直接加工的移動版. 因此,在同一工藝條件下，同時注入兩個標(biāo)準(zhǔn)技術(shù)制造，獲得相同的工作。
3 獲得電殼:設(shè)備
電鍍是電解質(zhì)時電流的化學(xué)變化,電解所形成的直流電有兩個電極，陽極和陰極。當(dāng)電流流經(jīng)電路，在離子溶液中轉(zhuǎn)化為原子。
電鍍液用于這項工作是由氨基磺酸鎳400 毫升/升,氯化鎳(10克/升)、硼酸(50克/升),allbrite SLA(30毫升/升),allbrite703(2毫升/升). 選擇這種組合主要原因是我們考慮注塑模具程序是玻璃纖維. 氨基磺酸鎳讓我們獲得可以接受的內(nèi)部壓力(測試不同工藝條件結(jié)果,而不是最佳工藝條件約2兆帕最高為50兆帕). 不過,這種內(nèi)部壓力是由touenesulfonamode衍生物和甲醛水溶液使用的ALLbrite添加劑的結(jié)果。
這種添加劑也增加了殼的阻力. Allbrite703是一種可生物降解水溶液表使用劑 氯化鎳,有利于解決金屬統(tǒng)一分布在陰極，提高導(dǎo)電性的問題。硼酸作為PH值緩沖區(qū)。
該設(shè)備用于制造殼的測試如下：
● 聚丙烯:600毫米×400毫米×500毫米的尺寸
● 三聚四氟乙烯電阻器,每一個有800W
● 具有機(jī)械攪拌系統(tǒng)的陰極
●循環(huán)和過濾系統(tǒng)用的泵和聚丙烯過濾器。
● 充電整流器. 最大強(qiáng)度在連續(xù)50個A和連續(xù)電流電壓介于0至16伏
● 籃鈦鎳陽極(鎳硫回合電解鎳)純度99%以上
● 氣體注入系統(tǒng)
一旦電流密度( 1-22A/dm）,溫度(35至55℃)和pH值,已經(jīng)確定，執(zhí)行參數(shù)以及測試的進(jìn)程部分不可改變。
4 獲得硬度
電殼硬度的測試一直保持在相當(dāng)高的很穩(wěn)定的結(jié)果。如圖2，可以看到：電流密度值2.5到22A/dm，硬度值介于540到580高壓，PH值為4+-0.2和溫度為45攝氏度，如果PH減少到3.5和溫度為55攝氏度，硬度為520以上，高壓低于560.這一測試使常規(guī)組成不同于其他氨基磺酸鎳，允許其經(jīng)營更加廣泛，然而，這種operatyivity將是一定的取決于其他因素，如內(nèi)部壓力，因為他可能的變異。
改變PH值，電流密度和溫度等，另一方面，傳統(tǒng)的硬度氨基磺酸鎳承受的高壓在200-250之間，遠(yuǎn)低于取得的一個實驗結(jié)果的電壓。對于一個注塑模具，硬度可以接受的起點300高壓這是必須考慮的，注塑模具中最常見的材料，有改善鋼（290高壓），整體淬火（520-595高壓），casehardened鋼鐵（760-8--高壓）等，以這樣一種方式，可以看到，注塑模具硬度水平的鎳是殼內(nèi)的高范圍的材料。因為這是一個負(fù)責(zé)內(nèi)部壓力的塑料注射液，這種方式與環(huán)氧樹脂灌漿將遵循它，相反對低韌性的殼補(bǔ)償，這就是為什么它是必定盡可能的外殼厚度均勻，并沒有重要的原因，如 腐蝕。
5 金相組織
為了分析金相結(jié)構(gòu)、電流密度、溫度主要變化. 在正面橫向部分（垂直沉積）對樣品進(jìn)行了分析，為了方便地封裝在樹脂，拋光。銘刻，在不同階段的混合乙酸和硝酸。該時刻間隔15,25,40,50之后再次拋光, 為了在金相顯微鏡下觀察奧林巴斯PME3-ADL3.3X/10X
必須要說的是，這一條規(guī)定顯示了圖片之后的評論，用于制造該模型的殼在FDM快速成型機(jī)里融化的塑料材料（澳
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