Enhanced, Seamless Ultrasound Introduction Unit for Thermoplastic Melt Treatment
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Attempting to achieve tight seals, resulting in relatively low-amplitude movements [15].
- Creating a cavity in part of the horn and clamping it in its first wave node, resulting in the necessity of a dead space filled with the polymer. However, without the implementation of a venting system, the derogated polymer flows back into the primary melt stream [16].
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Material
2.2. Modeling
2.3. Experimental Setup
3. Results and Discussions
- 254.58 W/cm2 for the cleaning material at 50 W;
- 478.62 W/cm2 for PLA at 94 W.
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Measurement | 0% Ampl. [g/min] | 50% Ampl. [g/min] | Gain [%] |
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1 | 6.20 | 7.00 | 12.9 |
2 | 6.30 | 7.20 | 14.3 |
3 | 6.06 | 6.88 | 13.5 |
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Sparenberg, M.R.A.; Schmidt, J.-U.R.; Titze, M.; Monner, H.P. Enhanced, Seamless Ultrasound Introduction Unit for Thermoplastic Melt Treatment. Designs 2025, 9, 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs9010018
Sparenberg MRA, Schmidt J-UR, Titze M, Monner HP. Enhanced, Seamless Ultrasound Introduction Unit for Thermoplastic Melt Treatment. Designs. 2025; 9(1):18. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs9010018
Chicago/Turabian StyleSparenberg, Marc René André, Jan-Uwe Reinhard Schmidt, Maik Titze, and Hans Peter Monner. 2025. "Enhanced, Seamless Ultrasound Introduction Unit for Thermoplastic Melt Treatment" Designs 9, no. 1: 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs9010018
APA StyleSparenberg, M. R. A., Schmidt, J.-U. R., Titze, M., & Monner, H. P. (2025). Enhanced, Seamless Ultrasound Introduction Unit for Thermoplastic Melt Treatment. Designs, 9(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs9010018