同步帶張緊輪注塑模具設(shè)計

以上為資料預(yù)覽概圖，下載文件后為壓縮包資料文件?！厩逦?，無水印，可編輯】dwg后綴為cad圖，doc后綴為word格式，需要請自助下載即可，有疑問可以咨詢QQ 197216396 或 11970985 畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）開 題 報 告 學(xué)生姓名： 學(xué) 號： 專 業(yè)： 班 級： 指導(dǎo)教師： 課題題目及來源 題目：同步帶張緊輪注塑模具設(shè)計； 來源：生產(chǎn)實(shí)踐一、課題研究的意義和國內(nèi)外研究現(xiàn)狀1.課題研究的意義在現(xiàn)代汽車發(fā)動機(jī)中，不僅廣泛使用帶傳動驅(qū)動發(fā)電機(jī)、空調(diào)壓縮機(jī)、風(fēng)扇等發(fā)動機(jī)附件，連需要和曲軸保持嚴(yán)格相位關(guān)系的凸輪軸也采用帶輪傳動。皮帶傳動的附件系統(tǒng)通常安裝在發(fā)動機(jī)的前表面上，每個附件都安裝在軸上的皮帶輪上，用于接收來自某形式的皮帶傳動的動力。在早期的系統(tǒng)中，每個附件都由在附件系統(tǒng)和曲軸之間運(yùn)行的單根皮帶驅(qū)動。但由于皮帶技術(shù)的改進(jìn)，現(xiàn)在在大多數(shù)應(yīng)用中通常采用單根蛇形皮帶。在各附屬部件之間迂回的單根蛇形皮帶驅(qū)動所述附件。因?yàn)樯咝纹П仨氂鼗氐剿械母郊?，所以，通常它比以前使用的皮帶更長。單根蛇形帶的使用使得發(fā)動機(jī)系同步置比以前更加緊湊，而且成本也大為節(jié)約，效率也高。但同時，蛇形帶正常工作時應(yīng)具有預(yù)定的張力，當(dāng)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)時，皮帶稍稍拉長而超過其長度,這將導(dǎo)致皮帶張力下降，可能造成皮帶打滑，而用單根帶傳遞時，可能會因?yàn)閱胃鶐У拈L度更長而造成更嚴(yán)重的皮帶打滑。因此，在皮帶工作使用過程中，使用皮帶張緊輪保持適當(dāng)?shù)钠埩κ潜夭豢缮俚钠л喯挡考?。本課題的研究將涉及一些二維和三維的軟件的應(yīng)用，如AUTO CAD等，以及相關(guān)軟件的應(yīng)用。這將會使我運(yùn)用這些軟件的能力得到提升。同時本次畢業(yè)設(shè)計還涉及到模具注塑模的相關(guān)知識。這對我來說是一個新領(lǐng)域，所以通過這次畢業(yè)設(shè)計對我自學(xué)能力的培養(yǎng)是一個很好的機(jī)會。因此通過本次學(xué)習(xí)將對我進(jìn)一步鞏固所學(xué)知識及靈活應(yīng)用所學(xué)知識來解決實(shí)際問題有著深遠(yuǎn)的意義。另外，通過本次畢業(yè)設(shè)計，將使我掌握寫論文的一般步驟及方法。同時也提高了我如何快速而有效的查閱相關(guān)信息的方法，不僅鍛煉了我在遇到困難時冷靜分析。獨(dú)立思考及解決問題的能力，而且培養(yǎng)了我和同學(xué)相互討論，相互學(xué)習(xí)的習(xí)慣。2.國內(nèi)外研究現(xiàn)狀 1）國內(nèi)研究現(xiàn)狀及發(fā)展 80年代以來，在國家產(chǎn)業(yè)政策和與之配套的一系列國家經(jīng)濟(jì)政策的支持和引導(dǎo)下，我國模具工業(yè)發(fā)展迅速，年均增速均為13%，在未來的模具市場中，塑料管件在模具總量中的比例還將逐步提高。 經(jīng)過半個世紀(jì)的發(fā)展，模具水平有了較大提高。高水平的企業(yè)越來越多！由于他的抗腐蝕、廉價等優(yōu)秀品質(zhì)，被應(yīng)用于我國現(xiàn)代化建設(shè)的各個領(lǐng)域。精密塑料模具方面，已能生產(chǎn)醫(yī)療塑料件模具、多型腔小模數(shù)齒輪模具及塑封模具。所生產(chǎn)的這類塑件的尺寸精度、同軸度、跳動等要求都達(dá)到了國外同類產(chǎn)品的水平。交貨期較以前縮短，但和國外相比仍有較大差距。 成型工藝方面，多材質(zhì)塑料成型模、高效多色注射模、鑲件互換結(jié)構(gòu)和抽芯脫模機(jī)構(gòu)的創(chuàng)新方面也取得較大進(jìn)展。氣體輔助注射成型技術(shù)的使用更趨成熟，如青島海信模具有限公司、采用內(nèi)熱式或外熱式熱流道裝置，少數(shù)單位采用具有世界先進(jìn)水平的高難度針閥式熱流道模具。但總體上熱流道的采用率達(dá)不到10%，與國外的50%80%相比，差距較大。 在制造技術(shù)方面，CAD/CAM/CAE技術(shù)的應(yīng)用水平上了一個新臺階，陸續(xù)引進(jìn)了相當(dāng)數(shù)量的CAD/CAM系統(tǒng)，如美國EDS的UG、美國Parametric Technology公司的Pro/E軟件等等。這些系統(tǒng)和軟件的引進(jìn)，實(shí)現(xiàn)了CAD/CAM的集成，并能支持CAE技術(shù)對成型過程，取得了一定的技術(shù)經(jīng)濟(jì)效益，促進(jìn)和推動了我國模具CAD/CAM技術(shù)的發(fā)展。 2）國外研究現(xiàn)狀及發(fā)展 我國模具生產(chǎn)廠中多數(shù)是自產(chǎn)自配的工模具車間（分廠），自產(chǎn)自配比例高達(dá)60%左右，而國外模具超過70%屬商品模具。專業(yè)模具廠大多是“大而全”、“小而全”的組織形式，而國外大多是“小而?！薄ⅰ靶《?。國內(nèi)大型、精密、復(fù)雜、長壽命的模具占總量比例不足30%，而國外在50%以上。2004年，我國模具進(jìn)出口之比為3.71，進(jìn)出口相抵后的凈進(jìn)口額達(dá)13.2億美元，為世界模具凈進(jìn)口量最大的國家。注塑成型是最大量生產(chǎn)塑料制品的一種成型方法，二十多年來，國外的注塑模CAD技術(shù)發(fā)展相當(dāng)迅速。70年代已開始應(yīng)用計算機(jī)對熔融塑料在圓形、管形和長方形型腔內(nèi)的流動情況進(jìn)行分析。80年代初，人們成功采用有限元法分析三維型腔的流動過程，使設(shè)計人員可以依據(jù)理論分析并結(jié)合自身的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，在模具制造前對設(shè)計方案進(jìn)行評價和修改，以減少試模時間，提高模具質(zhì)量。近十多年來，注塑模CAD技術(shù)在不斷進(jìn)行理論和試驗(yàn)研究的同時，十分注意向?qū)嵱没A段發(fā)展，一些商品軟件逐步推出，并在推廣和實(shí)際應(yīng)用中不斷改進(jìn)。二、課題研究的主要內(nèi)容和方法及研究過程中的問題與解決辦法1.研究的主要內(nèi)容 完成張緊輪注塑模具的結(jié)構(gòu)設(shè)計，利用Pro/E系統(tǒng)通過它在計算機(jī)上模擬實(shí)際成型過程，預(yù)測可能出現(xiàn)的缺陷，如產(chǎn)品結(jié)構(gòu)是否合理、怎樣選擇合適的注塑材料、確定合適的澆口位置，預(yù)測“氣泡及熔接痕”位置、壓力和溫度分布、制品的填充質(zhì)量、預(yù)測成本等，實(shí)現(xiàn)對模具CAD的優(yōu)化設(shè)計。2.研究內(nèi)容的方法 綜合運(yùn)用所學(xué)專業(yè)基礎(chǔ)知識，設(shè)計張緊輪的注塑模具。該題目是實(shí)際應(yīng)用題目，通過畢業(yè)設(shè)計過程使學(xué)生得到較全面的基本工程訓(xùn)練。 a) 了解當(dāng)前張緊輪應(yīng)用情況及其發(fā)展方向； b) 綜合運(yùn)用所學(xué)專業(yè)基礎(chǔ)知識，完成張緊輪注塑模具的部分設(shè)計； c) 通過設(shè)計提高工作實(shí)踐能力，為適應(yīng)社會對設(shè)計人才的需求打下良好基礎(chǔ)。3. 研究的主要問題及解決辦法 張緊輪在實(shí)際使用過程中為了保持適當(dāng)?shù)钠埦o力，避免皮帶打滑.補(bǔ)償皮帶磨損和老化后引起的伸長量需要一定的扭矩。當(dāng)皮帶張緊輪運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)時，運(yùn)動的皮帶可能在張緊輪中激起振動，會導(dǎo)致皮帶和張緊輪過早磨損。為此，對張緊輪添加阻尼機(jī)構(gòu)。但因影響張緊輪扭矩和阻尼的參數(shù)較多，各參數(shù)的影響也不盡相同，所以張緊輪各部件與扭矩和阻尼的關(guān)系非常復(fù)雜。扭矩變化直接影響阻尼的變化，而且是阻尼的主要影響因素，影響扭矩的主要因子是扭簧的參數(shù)。適當(dāng)減小扭簧中徑，可以提高張緊輪的阻尼值。 在注塑模具方面，也存在著一些缺陷。如：成品不完整，制品收縮，成品粘膜，毛頭、飛邊等?？梢砸罁?jù)其特點(diǎn)進(jìn)行解決，可提高射膠量，提高容壓，加快射速，降低料溫，適當(dāng)延長冷卻時間等。參考文獻(xiàn)： 1 楊玉萍,季彬彬. 同步帶傳動中張緊輪安裝位置的優(yōu)化設(shè)計. 南通大學(xué)學(xué)報. 20102 蔣繼紅,虞賢穎,王效岳. 塑料成型模具典型結(jié)構(gòu)圖冊 . 20063 田力,劉紅宇,王文. 影響張緊輪扭矩和阻尼的結(jié)構(gòu)參數(shù)優(yōu)化設(shè)計. 軸承. 20084 許發(fā)樾. 模具標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化及其生產(chǎn)技術(shù). 現(xiàn)代制造. 20045 李建國. 注射模成型零件工作尺寸計算方法分析. 模具工業(yè). 20036 王明宇. 非標(biāo)準(zhǔn)零部件圖庫系統(tǒng)的參數(shù)化設(shè)計. 自動化技術(shù)與應(yīng)用. 20037 周凡,殷國富. 面向CAPP的工藝資源管理系統(tǒng)研究. 現(xiàn)代制造工程. 20038 程貴秀,葉延科. 企業(yè)信息分類與編碼問題的研究. 電腦開發(fā)與應(yīng)用. 20039 沈建新,廖文和. 模具CAPP系統(tǒng)開發(fā)的關(guān)鍵技術(shù)研究. 模具工業(yè). 200310 楊寧,婁臻亮. 模具計算機(jī)輔助工藝設(shè)計系統(tǒng)的研制與開發(fā). 上海交通 大學(xué)學(xué)報. 2003指導(dǎo)教師審查意見：指導(dǎo)教師簽字：2014 年 月 日指導(dǎo)委員會意見審核意見：組長簽字：2014 年 月 日 附錄A英文翻譯 Single gate optimization for plastic injection moldAbstract: This paper deals with a methodology for single gate location optimization for plastic injection mold. The objective of the gate optimization is to minimize the warpage of injection molded parts, because warpage is a crucial quality issue for most injection molded parts while it is influenced greatly by the gate location. Feature warpage is defined as the ratio of maximum displacement on the feature surface to the projected length of the feature surface to describe part warpage. The optimization is combined with the numerical simulation technology to find the optimal gate location, in which the simulated annealing algorithm is used to search for the optimum. Finally, an example is discussed in the paper and it can be concluded that the proposed method is effective.INTRODUCTIONPlastic injection molding is a widely used, complex but highly efficient technique for producing a large variety of plastic products, particularly those with high production requirement, tight tolerance, and complex shapes. The quality of injection molded parts is a function of plastic material, part geometry, mold structure and process conditions. The most important part of an injection mold basically is the following three sets of components: cavities, gates and runners, and cooling system.Lam and Seow (2000) and Jin and Lam (2002) achieved cavity balancing by varying the wall thickness of the part. A balance filling process within the cavity gives an evenly distributed pressure and temperature which can drastically reduce the warpage of the part. But the cavity balancing is only one of the important influencing factors of part qualities. Especially, the part has its functional requirements, and its thicknesses should not be varied usually.From the pointview of the injection mold design, a gate is characterized by its size and location, and the runner system by the size and layout. The gate size and runner layout are usually determined as constants. Relatively, gate locations and runner sizes are more flexible, which can be varied to influence the quality of the part. As a result, they are often the design parameters for optimization.Lee and Kim (1996a) optimized the sizes of runners and gates to balance runner system for multiple injection cavities. The runner balancing was described as the differences of entrance pressures for a multi-cavity mold with identical cavities, and as differences of pressures at the end of the melt flow path in each cavity for a family mold with different cavity volumes and geometries. The methodology has shown uniform pressure distributions among the cavities during the entire molding cycle of multiple cavities mold.Zhai et al.(2005a) presented the two gate location optimization of one molding cavity by an efficient search method based on pressure gradient (PGSS), and subsequently positioned weld lines to the desired locations by varying runner sizes for multi-gate parts (Zhai et al., 2006). As large-volume part, multiple gates are needed to shorten the maxiinjection pressure. The method is promising for design of gates and runners for a single cavity with multiple gates.Many of injection molded parts are produced with one gate, whether in single cavity mold or in multiple cavities mold. Therefore, the gate location of a single gate is the most common design parameter for optimization. A shape analysis approach was presented by Courbebaisse and Garcia (2002), by which the best gate location of injection molding was estimated. Subsequently, they developed this methodology further and applied it to single gate location optimization of an L shape example (Courbebaisse, 2005). It is easy to use and not time-consuming, while it only serves the turning of simple flat parts with uniform thickness.Pandelidis and Zou (1990) presented the optimization of gate location, by indirect quality measures relevant to warpage and material degradation, which is represented as weighted sum of a temperature differential term, an over-pack term, and a frictional overheating term. Warpage is influenced by the above factors, but the relationship between them is not clear. Therefore, the optimization effect is restricted by the determination of the weighting factors.Lee and Kim (1996b) developed an automated selection method of gate location, in which a set of initial gate locations were proposed by a designer and then the optimal gate was located by the adjacent node evaluation method. The conclusion to a great extent depends much on the human designers intuition, because the first step of the method is based on the designers proposition. So the result is to a large extent limited to the designers experience.Lam and Jin (2001) developed a gate location optimization method based on the minimization of the Standard Deviation of Flow Path Length (SDL) and Standard Deviation of Filling Time (SDT) during the molding filling process. Subsequently, Shen et al.(2004a; 2004b) optimized the gate location design by minimizing the weighted sum of filling pressure, filling time difference between different flow paths, temperature difference, and over-pack percentage. Zhai et al.(2005b) investigated optimal gate location with evaluation criteria of injection pressure at the end of filling. These researchers presented the objective functions as performances of injection molding filling operation, which are correlated with product qualities. But the correlation between the performances and qualities is very complicated and no clear relationship has been observed between them yet. It is also difficult to select appropriate weighting factors for each term.A new objective function is presented here to evaluate the warpage of injection molded parts to optimize gate location. To measure part quality directly, this investigation defines feature warpage to evaluate part warpage, which is evaluated from the “flow plus warpage” simulation outputs of Moldflow Plastics Insight (MPI) software. The objective function is minimized to achieve minimum deformation in gate location optimization. Simulated annealing algorithm is employed to search for the optimal gate location. An example is given to illustrate the effectivity of the proposed optimization procedure.QUALITY MEASURES: FEATURE WARPGEDefinition of feature warpageTo apply optimization theory to the gate design, quality measures of the part must be specified in the first instance. The term “quality” may be referred to many product properties, such as mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, ergonomical or geometrical properties. There are two types of part quality measures: direct and indirect. A model that predicts the properties from numerical simulation results would be characterized as a direct quality measure. In contrast, an indirect measure of part quality is correlated with target quality, but it cannot provide a direct estimate of that quality.For warpage, the indirect quality measures in related works are one of performances of injection molding flowing behavior or weighted sum of those. The performances are presented as filling time differential along different flow paths, temperature differential, over-pack percentage, and so on. It is obvious that warpage is influenced by these performances, but the relationship between warpage and these performances is not clear and the determination of these weighting factors is rather difficult. Therefore, the optimization with the above objective function probably will not minimize part warpage even with perfect optimization technique. Sometimes, improper weighting factors will result in absolutely wrong results.Some statistical quantities calculated from the nodal displacements were characterized as direct quality measures to achieve minimum deformation in related optimization studies. The statistical quantities are usually a maximum nodal displacement, an average of top 10 percentile nodal displacements, and an overall average nodal displacement (Lee and Kim, 1995; 1996b). These nodal displacements are easy to obtain from the simulation results, the statistical val-ues, to some extents, representing the deformation. But the statistical displacement cannot effectively describe the deformation of the injection molded part.In industry, designers and manufacturers usually pay more attention to the degree of part warpage on some specific features than the whole deformation of the injection molded parts. In this study, feature warpage is defined to describe the deformation of the injection parts. The feature warpage is the ratio of the maximum displacement of the feature surface to the projected length of the feature surface (Fig.1):where is the feature warpage, h is the maximum displacement on the feature surface deviating from the reference platform, and L is the projected length of the feature surface on a reference direction paralleling the reference platform.For complicated features (only plane feature iscussed here), the feature warpage is usually separated into two constituents on the reference plane, which are represented on a 2D coordinate system:where x, y are the constituent feature warpages in the X, Y direction, and Lx, Ly are the projected lengths of feature surface on X, Y component.Evaluation of feature warpageAfter the determination of target feature combined with corresponding reference plane and projection direction, the value of L can be calculated immediately from the part with the calculating method of analytic geometry (Fig.2). L is a constant for any part on the specified feature surface and projected direction. But the evaluation of h is more complicated than that of L.Simulation of injection molding process is a common technique to forecast the quality of part design, mold design and process settings. The results of warpage simulation are expressed as the nodal deflections on X, Y, Z component (Wx, Wy, Wz), and the odal displacement W. W is the vector length of vector sum of Wxi, Wyj, and Wzk, where i, j, k are the unit vectors on X, Y, Z component. The h is the maximum displacement of the nodes on the feature surface, which is correlated with the normal orientation of the reference plane, and can be derived from the results of warpage simulation.To calculate h, the deflection of ith node is evaluated firstly as follows:where Wi is the deflection in the normal direction of the reference plane of ith node; Wix, Wiy, Wiz are the deflections on X, Y, Z component of ith node; , , are the angles of normal vector of the reference; A and B are the terminal nodes of the feature to projecting direction (Fig.2); WA and WB are the deflections of nodes A and B:where WAx, WAy, WAz are the deflections on X, Y, Z component of node A; WBx, WBy and WBz are the deflections on X, Y, Z component of node B; iA and iB are the weighting factors of the terminal node deflections calculated as follows:where LiA is the projector distance between ith node and node A. Ultimately, h is the maximum of the absolute value of Wi:In industry, the inspection of the warpage is carried out with the help of a feeler gauge, while the measured part should be placed on a reference platform. The value of h is the maximum numerical reading of the space between the measured part surface and the reference platform.GATE LOCATION OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM RMATIONThe quality term “warpage” means the permanent deformation of the part, which is not caused by an applied load. It is caused by differential shrinkage throughout the part, due to the imbalance of polymer flow, packing, cooling, and crystallization.The placement of a gate in an injection mold is one of the most important variables of the total mold design. The quality of the molded part is greatly affected by the gate location, because it influences the manner that the plastic flows into the mold cavity. Therefore, different gate locations introduce inhomogeneity in orientation, density, pressure, and temperature distribution, accordingly introducing different value and distribution of warpage. Therefore, gate location is a valuable design variable to minimize the injection molded part warpage. Because the correlation between gate location and warpage distribution is to a large extent independent of the melt and mold temperature, it is assumed that the molding conditions are kept constant in this investigation. The injection molded part warpage is quantified by the feature warpage which was discussed in the previoussection.The single gate location optimization can thus be formulated as follows:where is the feature warpage; p is the injection pressure at the gate position; p0 is the allowable injection pressure of injection molding machine or the allowable injection pressure specified by the designer or manufacturer; X is the coordinate vector of the candidate gate locations; Xi is the node on the finite element mesh model of the part for injection molding process simulation; N is the total number of nodes.In the finite element mesh model of the part, every node is a possible candidate for a gate. Therefore, the total number of the possible gate location Np is a function of the total number of nodes N and the total number of gate locations to be optimized n:In this study, only the single-gate location problem is investigated.SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMThe simulated annealing algorithm is one of the most powerful and popular meta-heuristics to solve optimization problems because of the provision of good global solutions to real-world problems. The algorithm is based upon that of Metropolis et al. (1953), which was originally proposed as a means to find an equilibrium configuration of a collection of atoms at a given temperature. The connection between this algorithm and mathematical minimization was first noted by Pincus (1970), but it was Kirkpatrick et al.(1983) who proposed that it formed the basis of an optimization technique for combinational (and other) problems.To apply the simulated annealing method to op timization problems, the objective function f is used as an energy function E. Instead of finding a lowenergy configuration, the problem becomes to seek an approximate global optimal solution. The configurations of the values of design variables are substituted for the energy configurations of the body, and the control parameter for the process is substituted for temperature. A random number generator is used as a way of generating new values for the design variables. It is obvious that this algorithm just takes the mini-mization problems into account. Hence, while performing a maximization problem the objective function is multiplied by (1) to obtain a capable form.The major advantage of simulated annealing algorithm over other methods is the ability to avoid being trapped at local minima. This algorithm employs a random search, which not only accepts changes that decrease objective function f, but also accepts some changes that increase it. The latter are accepted with a probability pwhere f is the increase of f, k is Boltzmans constant, and T is a control parameter which by analogy with the original application is known as the system “temperature” irrespective of the objective function involved. In the case of gate location optimization, the implementation of this algorithm is illustrated in Fig.3, and this algorithm is detailed as follows:(1) SA algorithm starts from an initial gate location Xold with an assigned value Tk of the “temperature” parameter T (the “temperature” counter k is initially set to zero). Proper control parameter c (0c 1) in annealing process and Markov chain Ngenerate are given.(2) SA algorithm generates a new gate location Xnew in the neighborhood of Xold and the value of the objective function f(X) is calculated.(3) The new gate location will be accepted with probability determined by the acceptance functionP accept = min 1,exp k ( f ( X new ) f ( X old ) T k A uniform random variable Punif is generated in 0,1. If PunifPaccept, Xnew is accepted; otherwise it is rejected.(4) This process is repeated for a large enough number of iterations (Ngenerate) for Tk. The sequence of trial gate locations generated in this way is known as Markov chain.(5) A new Markov chain is then generated (starting from the last accepted gate location in the previous Markov chain) for a reduced “temperature” Tk+1=cTk and the same process continues for decreasing values of “temperature” until the algorithm stops. Fig.3 The flow chart of the simulated annealing algorithmAPPLICATION AND DISCUSSIONThe application to a complex industrial part is presented in this section to illustrate the proposed quality measure and optimization methodology. The part is provided by a manufacturer, as shown in Fig.4. In this part, the flatness of basal surface is the most important profile precision requirement. Therefore, the feature warpage is discussed on basal surface, in which reference platform is specified as a horizontal plane attached to the basal surface, and the longitudinal direction is specified as projected reference direction. The parameter h is the maximum basal surface deflection on the normal direction, namely the vertical direction, and the parameter L is the projected length of the basal surface to the longitudinal direction.Fig.4 Industrial part provided by the manufacturerThe material of the part is Nylon Zytel 101L (30% EGF, DuPont Engineering Polymer). The molding conditions in the simulation are listed in Table 1. Fig.5 shows the finite element mesh model of the part employed in the numerical simulation. It has 1469 nodes and 2492 elements. The objective function, namely feature warpage, is evaluated by Eqs.(1), (3)(6). The h is evaluated from the results of “Flow +Warp” Analysis Sequence in MPI by Eq.(1), and the L is measured on the industrial part immediately, L=20.50 mm.Table 1 The molding conditions in the simulationConditionsValuesFill time (s)2.5Melt temperature (C)295Mold temperature (C)70Packing time (s)10Packing pressure (of filling pressure) (%)80MPI is the most extensive software for the injection molding simulation, which can recommend the best gate location based on balanced flow. Gate location analysis is an effective tool for gate location design besides empirical method. For this part, the gate location analysis of MPI recommends that the best gate location is near node N7459, as shown in Fig.5. The part warpage is simulated based on this recommended gate and thus the feature warpage is evaluated: =5.15%, which is a great value. In trial manufacturing, part warpage is visible on the sample work piece. This is unacceptable for the manufacturer.The great warpage on basal surface is caused by the uneven orientation distribution of the glass fiber,as shown in Fig.6a. Fig.6a shows that the glass fiber orientation changes from negative direction to positive direction because of the location of the gate, particularly the greatest change of the fiber orientation appears near the gate. The great diversification of fiber orientation caused by gate location introduces serious differential shrinkage. Accordingly, the feature warpage is notable and the gate location must be optimized to reduce part warpage.Fig.6 The orientation distribution of the glass fiber withvaried gate location(a) Gate set on N7459; (b) The optimal gate location N7379To optimize the gate location, the simulated annealing searching discussed in the section “Simulated annealing algorithm” is applied to this part. The m