Effective length scale for predicting solvent-debinding times of components produced by powder injection molding

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1146-1152

  Shivashankar, Tirumani S ^a,b,c   German, Randall M ^a,c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b AF Technologies Private Ltd   (India)

^c AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

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EID: 0001426589     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1999.tb01888.x     Document Type: Article

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