Advanced Plastic Mould Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Plastic Mould Design (subject code 2182311) as prescribed for Plastic · Semester 8 divides the course into 7 units, covering 48 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2182311)Unit 1 INTRODUCTION TO FULLY AUTOMATIC INJECTION MACHINE MOUL 04 10%
- Introduction to the concept of fully auto moulds
- requirements of fully automatic injection machine mould
- Design features
- introduction to the concept of shrinkage calculations
- introduction to cooling requirement
- fully automatic ejection systems
- tolerance, etc
Unit 2 INTRODUCTION TO EJECTION SYSTEMS
- Fully automatic ejection systems’ layout
- pin ejection
- sleeve ejection
- air ejection
- stripper plate ejection
- valve ejection
- stripper bush ejection
- ejection systems for products with undercut like internal and external undercut
- auto ejection systems for threaded products
- layouts in detail
- ejection systems for internal undercuts other than threads in detail
- calculations for design of ejection systems
Unit 3 COOLING SYSTEMS IN FULLY AUTOMATIC INJECTION MACHINE MO 15 20%
- Cooling system layouts
- requirements of a cooling system
- calculations of amount of heat to be extracted from the tool per hour
- cooling for Insert and integer moulds
- layouts for insert cooling of Cores and Cavities
- cooling for shallow and deep cores and cavities
- cooling for multi impression mould of Heat Rods
- Heat Pipes, etc
Unit 4 SPLIT MOULDS
- Design of finger cams
- Dog leg cams
- Cam Track actuation systems
- spring actuation systems
- hydraulic actuation systems.
- Angled Lift Splits
Unit 5 EXTERNAL UNDERCUT MOULDS
- Core withdrawal systems
- Internal side core/Cavity assembly details
- Guiding arrangement
- locking details
- Methods of actuation: Hydraulic
- pneumatic, Cam, Spring
Unit 6 INTERNAL UNDERCUT MOULDS
- 04 10% Stripping internal undercuts
- Collapsible cores
- Unscrewing moulds Axially fixed rotating Core
- Rotating Core plus Extractor plate
- Power and transmission systems[ Manual
Unit 7 SHRINKAGE /TOLERANCE CALCULATIONS FOR MOULD PARTS 03 10%
- C PROGRAMS for shot capacity
- plasticizing capacity
- no.of impressions
- projected area, etc
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