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    Optimal Mould Design for the Manufacture of High-Precision Lenses

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    Sellier, M.
    Breitbach, C.
    Loch, H.
    Siedow, N.
    Date
    2006
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/464

    The increasing need for low-cost, high-precision optical devices requires innovative manufacturing techniques or the optimization of existing ones. The present study focuses on the latter alternative and proposes a computer-aided, mould optimization algorithm for the manufacturing of high-precision glass lenses by compression moulding. The intuitive, yet very efficient, algorithm computes at each optimization loop the mismatch between the desired and deformed glass shapes and uses this information to update the mould design. To solve this optimal shape design problem, a finite element model representative of the real industrial process is developed and solved in the commercial package ABAQUS. This model solves the several stages involved in the process and includes the thermo-mechanical coupling, the varying mechanical contact between the glass and the mould, and the stress and structure relaxation in the glass. The algorithm is successfully tested for the mould design for a plano-concave and a bi-concave lens as the residual error between the deformed and desired glass profiles is decreased to a value of the order of one micron.

    Subjects
    optimal shape design
     
    compression moulding
     
    glass forming
     
    finite element model
     
    Fields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::291400 Materials Engineering::291499 Materials engineering not elsewhere classified
     
    Fields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::290500 Mechanical and Industrial Engineering::290501 Mechanical engineering
     
    Fields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::291400 Materials Engineering::291499 Materials engineering not elsewhere classified
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    • Engineering: Conference Contributions [2012]
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