Computation procedure for the temperature in hot glass application to the finite element Simulation of hollow glass forming

Abstract

A new incremental procedure is developed for the thermal analysis in 3D glass products considering the one-dimensional analytical solutions for a semi-infmite glass wall. When coupled to a code being capable of computing large mechanical deformations, this allows to analyze efficiently the glass flow during the pressing, self-deformation and blowing processes. The forming of a reference tumbler is analyzed via finite element simulations. For each forming step, the temperature distribution is calculated from the pressing parameters; pertinent results are found for this first application.