Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Shrinkage Behavior of Precision Injection Molded Articles. II. Results and Discussion

In the accompanying paper, Part I, presented are the physical modeling and numerical formulation of new lateral motion modelings. In Part II, new models developed in Part I are validated by the successful comparison of calculated residual stress profile with the literature data. The predicted results of the birefringence, residual stress distribution, and shrinkage from new lateral motion modeling are in better agreement with corresponding experimental data than those from the conventional ones. The new model prediction falls between those of two extreme cases corresponding to conventional models. As a result of extensive parametric study of processing conditions, the developed analysis system is found to be capable of successfully predicting the tendency of shrinkage behavior varying with most of processing conditions. In this regard, the new model enables better analysis based design and optimization of precision injection-molded products. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 2008. © 2008 Society of Plastics Engineers