Process Optimization Of The Glass Forming Process By Advanced 3D Forming Models

Production of glass bottles requires blowing of the glass after entrance of a gob of molten glass in the blank mould. The finals shape of the bottle is highly dependent on the viscosity of the glass, the blow-pressure and the temperature distribution in the glass and the mould and simulation of this complicated process enables optimisation of the process conditions. During simulation of blowing of the glass, the mesh has to be adapted due to the extreme deformation of the mesh. Using existing ALE-techniques for this kind of application requires a lot of user-intervention and trial-and-error to create a mesh that suits both the initial and final topology of the glass. To reduce the user-time and to be able to run this kind of analyses automatically based on an arbitrary base-geometry, a completely automated remeshing/rezoning procedure is set up. In this procedure the A/Explicit analysis is divided in a number of sub-analyses after each of which a new (3D) geometry of the glass is created based on the deformed mesh (using Galileo+CAE). Using map-routine of the solution from the previous analysis is mapped on the new mesh such that continuation of results is ensured.

Author
E Muijsenberg
Origin
Glass Service Bv, The Netherlands
Journal Title
70Th Conf Glass Problems 2010 21-31
Sector
General
Class
G 3912

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Process Optimization Of The Glass Forming Process By Advanced 3D Forming Models
70Th Conf Glass Problems 2010 21-31
G 3912
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