Study, design and simulation of an injection mold for a wheelbarrow's wheel spacer

Abstract

In recent years, domestic companies are in a competitive situation, this leads them to produce goods and services at the lowest possible cost and in less time. As such, every business is looking for more realistic and appropriate evaluation methods. The company SOFICLEF decided to enroll in this process. The service and development department of the company took the initiative to manufacture certain parts instead of purchasing them. This task is considered a contribution in the sense that we will study and design an injection mold for a wheelbarrow's wheel spacer, a part which was purchased before and was carried out by the plastic injection system. Our main tasks will be to focus firstly on the theoretical part where we will provide the important characteristics of plastics, more precisely on PP (polypropylene), which is the material used for our part production, and the various processes involved for the implementation of parts from these materials. On the practical side we will run a plastic injection simulation using SOLIDWORKS Plastics, design a mold with the software SolidWorks, check its resistance to various conditions both theoretically and by running a resistance analysis using the software ABAQUS and finally we will preform a computer-aided manufacturing process with CAMWORKS.