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Calculating 'Required Clamping force' to seal case

Calculating 'Required Clamping force' to seal case

Calculating 'Required Clamping force' to seal case

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Hi

I'm designing a plastic enclosure (lid and a base) not dissimiar to a peli case in design. There will be an Oring and Oring groove feature within the Lid.

I would like to know how much pressure / clamping force is required to compress my seal sufficiently so mating face of lid and mating face of base are in contact?

I'm not sure if anyone knows of a formula?

Thanks in advance

Ben

 

RE: Calculating 'Required Clamping force' to seal case

Compress the O-ring by about 15% to 20%.  The force generated by the O-ring compression can be calculated (there is some data for this in the handbook link below), but it's easier to just make up a rig and test it using the O-ring compound of your choice.  Make sure the groove has more cross section area than the original O-ring, add a bit extra to allow for thermal expansion.  See the Parker O-ring Handbook for more info. (can take awhile to load, it's ~9MB):

http://www.parker.com/literature/ORD%205700%20Parker_O-Ring_Handbook.pdf

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