Experimental analysis and neural network modelling of the rheological behaviour of powder injection moulding feedstocks formed with bimodal powder mixtures

Powder Metallurgy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Dihoru, L V ^a   Smith, L N ^a,b   German, R M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; INJECTION MOLDING; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; TORQUE; VISCOELASTICITY;

POWDER INJECTION MOLDING (PIM);

STEEL POWDER METALLURGY;

EID: 0033727669     PISSN: 00325899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pom.2000.43.1.31     Document Type: Article

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