Rubber Equipment Design
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Rubber Equipment Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Rubber Equipment Design (subject code 3162603) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 6 divides the course into 8 units, covering 82 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 (3162603)Unit 1 Design of Mixing Equipments
- - Mixing mill & internal mixer
- Design aspects of mixing mills & internal mixers
- automation controls
- dispersion requirements & characteristics
- Safety-human aspects
- machine aspects
- Mixing equipments lay-out
- organization & capabilities
- Capital & running costs of various systems
- Design Development of the Internal Mixer
- Developments in Processing
Unit 2 Design of Calendaring Machines
- Applications of calender
- Types of calender
- Constructional components of calender
- Controls by use of cold water
- hot water
- steam etc, centrally & peripherical drilled rolls
- control of product thickness
- non-Newtonian behaviors of rubber comp. methods used for thickness control
- Roll design
- Calculation of roll separating force
- Calculation of roll deflection
- Specification of calender machine
Unit 3 Design of Hydraulic Press
- Classification of Press
- Hydraulic principle
- Major components
- Process design & Mechanical design
- part design
Unit 4 Mould Design
- Materials for mold
- Chrome Plating
- Part design
- Factors affecting design of mold
- Properties need for Mold Design
- Cavity and core design
- Strength of cavity
- Guide system design
- Ejection System design
- Runner and Gate Design
Unit 5 Design of Extruder & Die
- Basic requirements for Die Design
- Practical aspects of Die Design
- Streamlining of Extruder Dies
- Classification of Dies
- Material of Construction of Die, Hot Feed Extruder
- Cold feed Extruder
- The Single Screw Extruder
- Vented Extruders
- The Multiscrew Extruder
- Disk Extruders
- Ram Extruders
- Feed Roller
- Extension Barrel
- Action of the Screw
- Effects of the Screw and Barrel Temperatures
- Iddon High Intensity Mixing Screw
- Extruder Hardware 7 Subject Code: 3162603 w.e.f
Unit 6 Design of Injection Molding Machine
- Classification of injection mold
- Parts of Conventional injection mold
- Guide Pillar
- Types of injection Unit
- Variations in injection molding techniques
- Machine control and Process variables
- Selection of machine
- Effect of injection molding machine processing variables
- Other machine Controls
Unit 7 Compression Molding
- Working principal
- Working Process
- Molding Cycle
- Fundamental of molding
- Parts of molding tool
- Types of Compression press
- Crosslinking factors
- Mold release
- Thermal Consideration
- Cryogenic deflashing
Unit 8 Transfer Molding
- Working principal
- Working Process
- Molding Cycle
- Fundamental of molding
- Transfer pot, Crosslinking factors
- Mold release
- Thermal Consideration
- Pressure consideration