| Summary: | The Bladder Assisted Composite Manufacturing (BACM) technique is one
of the method to produce hollow product. Mostly, issue in design, research and
development effort are requirement to overcome the challenge in mold design.
Another that, for selecting the bladder material, controlling the pressure and
temperature of the heated air inside the bladder in BACM method is most important
thing to make sure the successful of the process. In this work, the focus is to design
the mold of BACM, starting with getting the accurate dimension of cylinder hollow
of the final product. In addition, a good selection of material mold is essential to
withstand the maximum processing temperature. This research requires the use of
SolidWorks software to design mold of BACM, and it is easier to design the mold
and the quality of the design can be improved. The analysis and simulation of the
mold is representing in thermal analysis and pressure analysis. The process of
simulation used 200 °C, 400 °C, and 600 °C temperature and 3 bar, 5 bar, 7 bar
pressure in the studied. Since the operating system of BACM process of temperature
between 100 °C to 250 °C, so the part is secure to use under 600 °C temperature
because melting point of material about 600 °C. The simulation result for thermal
analysis and pressure analysis shown the mold is secured.
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