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Symposium: S10 - Injection Molding
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Long Fiber Breakage Simulations for Injection Molded Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics: Processing From Screw to Part

Tseng Huan-Chang (1)*

(1) CoreTech System Co., Ltd. - Hsinchu County - Taiwan

Long fiber reinforced thermoplastics, with reducing costs and vehicle weight, continue growth in automotive. Their mechanical properties including strength, stiffness, and impact are strongly influenced by a length distribution of breakage fiber. Recently, the Phelps-Tucker fiber attribution model was proposed to predict the length distribution. In this work, a set of measurement data of fiber length in shear-induced screw processing has been used to validate the fiber attribution model and then determine model-parameter value. Furthermore, it is significant to present the length pattern of breakage fiber during mold filling via three-dimensional injection molding simulations, as compared with related experimental data.