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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2021 Patrick Moll et al., published by Sciendo
- ISSN
- 2300-0929
- eISSN
- 2300-0929
- DOI
- 10.2478/aut-2020-0039
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AbstractFiber injection molding is an innovative approach for the manufacturing of nonwoven preforms but products currently lack a homogeneous fiber distribution. Based on a mold-integrated monitoring system, the uniformity of the manufactured preforms will be investigated. As no universally accepted definition or method for measuring uniformity is accepted yet, this article aims to find a suitable uniformity index for evaluating fiber injection molded nonwovens. Based on a literature review, different methods are implemented and used to analyze simulated images with given distribution properties, as well as images of real nonwovens. This study showed that quadrant-based methods are suitable for evaluating the basis weight uniformity. It has been found that the indexes are influenced by the number of quadrants. Changes in sample size do not affect the indexes when keeping the quadrant number constant. The quadrants-based calculation of the coefficient of variation showed the best suitability as it shows good robustness and steady index for varying degrees of fiber distribution.
Journal
Autex Research Journal – de Gruyter
Published: Jul 1, 2021
Keywords: Fiber injection molding; nonwovens; glass fiber; preform; basis weight uniformity; image processing