A non-invasive experimental approach for surface temperature measurements on semi-crystalline thermoplastics

Sinan Boztepe 1 Rémi Gilblas 1 Olivier de Almeida 1 Yannick Le Maoult 1 Fabrice Schmidt 1
1 ICA - Institut Clément Ader
Abstract : Most of the thermoforming processes of thermoplastic polymers and their composites are performed adopting a combined heating and forming stages at which a precursor is heated prior to the forming. This step is done in order to improve formability by softening the thermoplastic polymer. Due to low thermal conductivity and semi-transparency of polymers, infrared (IR) heating is widely used for thermoforming of such materials. Predictive radiation heat transfer models for temperature distributions are therefore critical for optimizations of thermoforming process. One of the key challenges is to build a predictive model including the physical background of radiation heat transfer phenomenon in semi-crystalline thermoplastics as their microcrystalline structure introduces an optically heterogeneous medium. In addition, the accuracy of a predictive model is required to be validated experimentally where IR thermography is one of the suitable methods for such a validation as it provides a non-invasive, full-field surface temperature measurement. Although IR cameras provide a non-invasive measurement, a key issue for obtaining a reliable measurement depends on the optical characteristics of a heated material and the operating spectral band of IR camera. It is desired that the surface of a material to be measured has a spectral band where the material behaves opaque and an employed IR camera operates in the corresponding band. In this study, the optical characteristics of the PO-based polymer are discussed and, an experimental approach is proposed in order to measure the surface temperature of the PO-based polymer via IR thermography. The preliminary analyses showed that IR thermographic measurements may not be simply performed on PO-based polymers and require a correction method as their semi-transparent medium introduce a challenge to obtain reliable surface temperature measurements.
Keywords : Thermoplastic materials Thermography IR
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Sinan Boztepe, Rémi Gilblas, Olivier de Almeida, Yannick Le Maoult, Fabrice Schmidt. A non-invasive experimental approach for surface temperature measurements on semi-crystalline thermoplastics. ESAFORM 2017 - 20h International ESAFORM conference on Material Forming, Apr 2017, Dublin, Ireland. pp.060007, ⟨10.1063/1.5008070⟩. ⟨hal-01613022⟩

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