An Experimental Study on Wall Thickness Distribution in Thermoforming
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Kırklareli University, Engineering Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Department, Kayalı Campus Kırklareli, Turkey
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Trakya University, Engineering Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Department, "Ahmet Karadeniz" Campus, Edirne, Turkey
Publication date: 2017-09-03
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Olcay Ekşi
Kırklareli University, Engineering Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Department, Kayalı Campus Kırklare, 39100 Kırklareli, Turkey
Adv. Sci. Technol. Res. J. 2017; 11(3):139-142
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In this work, Polystyrene (PS) sheets were thermoformed in predetermined conditions. Wall thickness distributions obtained by experimental method in PS thermoformed products. Then same thickness distributions were predicted by using Geometric Element Analysis (GEA). The thickness results which obtained experimentally, compared to thickness distributions which were predicted by GEA. It has been found that GEA does not reveal thickness distributions precisely.