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A new friction welding process for soft packaging applications

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Soft packaging is crucial in food industries. Packages are essential in products protection and currently polymers films are the most suitable materials in this domain. Thus, multi-layered films are designed to provide all necessary properties. Packages have an increasing marketing role as new designs attract more customers. Being able to modify the shape of the packaging without additional cost becomes therefore a necessity. In this article, a new welding process that allows design change in packaging without any additional cost is presented and a simulation tool is proposed for studying the temperature history of the films depending on the various process parameters and material properties. A comparision with experimental thermal measurement is proposed, and numerical results analyzed to highlight the influence of some parameters on the thermal history of the films while sealing.

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This research was funded by SEALESTER SAS (M. Clément FOURMAUX, CEO) as a part of a ANRT (Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie) CIFRE thesis (contract 2018/0606). The instrumentation was established by the technical staff of GEPEA laboratory at University of Nantes.

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  1. SEALESTER, 1 Rue Pierre Gilles de Gennes, 72400, La Ferté Bernard, France

    Queen Tannous

  2. GEPEA - UMR CNRS 6144, Université de Nantes - IUT de Nantes, Nantes, France

    Queen Tannous

  3. Notre Dame University Louaize, P.O. Box 72, Zouk Mosbeh, Zouk Mikael, Lebanon

    Chady Ghnatios

  4. Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, E2S UPPA, CNRS, IPREM, Pau, France

    Anaïs Barasinski

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Tannous, Q., Ghnatios, C. & Barasinski, A. A new friction welding process for soft packaging applications. Int J Mater Form 15, 19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-022-01668-6

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