Costs and performance of injection moulding tools produced using slip casting

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-44

  Ainsley, Chris ^a   Gong, HaiQing ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; METAL CASTING; PERFORMANCE; POWDER METALS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STAINLESS STEEL; TESTING;

RAPID TOOLING; SLIP CASTING; TEST CAVITY GEOMETRY;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 0033299413     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549910251864     Document Type: Article

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