EFFECTS OF EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDING INTERNAL COOLING ...

The Fasti containers had a more consistent wall thickness throughout the
container while conventional containers had thinner walls near the top as shown
by the wall thickness data in Appendix A. The most statistically significant points
(those with p-values less than 0.001) are shown in bold in Table 7. These values
coincide with the thinnest spots on the conventional containers. This can be
explained by the extrusion speed. The Fasti containers used a higher extrusion
rate in order to prepare the parison faster. The slower extrusion rate of the
conventional process allowed the parison to stretch under its own weight and
therefore thin out near the top. This issue could be easily resolved by altering
the parison profile or possibly by lowering the melt temperature in the
conventional process.
Table 8. t-Score p-Values for Wall Thickness
t-score p-values (3 df)
Point 12:00 3:00 6:00 9:00
1 0.197 0.083 0.052 0.606
2 0.664 0.861 0.016 0.243
3 0.005 0.097 0.094 1.000
4 0.022 0.372 0.397 0.170
5 0.228 0.559 0.217 0.205
6 0.397 0.155 0.023 0.941
7 0.332 0.047 0.052 0.403
8 0.078 0.029 0.038 0.200
9 0.011 0.016 0.008 0.095
10 0.002 0.013 0.001 0.049
11 0.000 0.018 0.000 0.049
12 0.001 0.026 0.002 0.086
13 0.002 0.015 0.003 0.163
14 0.042 0.010 0.003 0.045
15 0.058 0.135 0.830 0.028
16 0.042 0.022 0.008 0.025
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