Temperature distribution analysis on aluminum mold of HTV silicone elastomer body part

Abstract

Congenital upper limb deficient children experience inconvenience on bimanual tasks caused by the limb development difference from excessive laterality. This research′s objective is to resolve this problem by developing an artificial body part for infants, which enhance haptic exploratory activity with the artificial limb by enabling thumb-sucking to progress body image growth from early infancy. In this report, we discuss modeling and heat distribution analysis simulation of the duralumin mold for the HTV silicone elastomer body parts. The technical target is to minimize the variability of the mold temperature for low-distorted solidification of the HTV silicone.