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Instability Phenomena in Film Casting Process

Experimental and Numerical Approaches
  • P. Barq , J. M. Haudin , J. F. Agassant , H. Roth and P. Bourgin
Published/Copyright: May 27, 2013
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Abstract

This paper deals with instability phenomena in PET film casting. An experimental investigation makes it possible to confirm the occurrence of draw-resonance above a critical draw ratio, and to show interesting coupling effects between thickness and width fluctuations. A theoretical model is developed on the basis of some important assumptions: constant width, vertical film, isothermal regime and Newtonian behavior. It allows to calculate the response to a sudden increase of the chill roll velocity and to predict the critical draw ratio (DR = 20.3). Other types of perturbations of the roll velocity (sinusoidal oscillation, random fluctuations) are also treated using this model.


* Mail address: Professor J. F. Agassant, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux, Unité Associée au C.N.R.S. n° D1374, 06560 Valbonne, France

Published Online: 2013-05-27
Published in Print: 1990-12-01

© 1990, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich

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