Study on heating process of ultrasonic welding for thermoplastics

Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 647-664

  Zhang, Zongbo ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Zhang, Zhenqiang ^a   Wang, Liding ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

finite element method; thermoplastics; ultrasonic welding; viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODULI; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HEATING MECHANISMS; HEATING PROCESS; INTERFACIAL FRICTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELAXATION MODULUS; SIMULATION RESULT; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TIME-TEMPERATURE EQUIVALENCY; VISCOELASTIC; VISCOELASTIC HEATING; WELDING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTERS; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS TRANSITION; HEATING; REINFORCED PLASTICS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOPLASTICS; ULTRASONIC WELDING; ULTRASONICS; WELDING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77956321312     PISSN: 08927057     EISSN: 15307980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0892705709356493     Document Type: Article

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