The Process Of An Optimized Heat Radiation Intensity Calculation On A Mould Surface

This article is focused on the optimization of heat radiation intensity across the surface of an aluminium mould. The mould is warmed by infrared heaters located above the mould surface, and in this way artificial leathers in the automotive industry are produced (e.g. the artificial leather on a car dashboard). This described model allows us to specify the location of infrared heaters over the mould to obtain approximately the same heat radiation intensity across the whole mould surface. In this way we can obtain a uniform material structure and colour tone across the whole surface of artificial leather. We used a genetic algorithm and the technique of “hill-climbing” during the optimization process. A computational procedure was programmed in the language Matlab.