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Smart Materials Congress 2019
Nano Research and Applications
ISSN: 2471-9838
Page 39
August 01-02, 2019
Dublin, Ireland
Smart Materials and
Structures
8
th
International Conference on
Nano Res Appl 2019, Volume 05
Direct fiber feeding injection molding technology for the
production of long-fiber reinforced plastic composite
materials
Ahmed Khalil
Donghua University, P R China
I
t is a new technology developed by our research group
which is a modified form of already existing injection
molding technology however, it is capable of producing
long fiber reinforced composite plastic structures for the
first time in the history. It is a unique technology which
enables the incorporationof continuousfilamentsdirectly
into the injection molding machine through a vent hole
provided above the machine’s barrel, rather than feeding
chopped fibers through the hopper. The vent provides
an additional feature to exhaust the toxic and unwanted
gases produced inside the barrel zone during the resin
melting process as well. Similarly, screw has also been
redesigned to avoid material from spilling out of the vent
hole during screw’s rotation process inside the machine
barrel. Until now, numerous tests have been conducted
on the polymer composites produced by this new
technology and nearly all the results have clearly shown
a remarkable improvement in the material’s properties
from various perspectives molded by DFFIM than that by
conventional injection molding machine.
khalil.textile11@gmail.com