Modeling and control of an electro-hydraulic injection molding machine with smoothed fill-to-pack transition

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 154-163

  Zheng, Danian ^a   Alleyne, Andrew ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; ELECTROHYDRAULIC FORMING; INJECTION MOLDING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC FLOW; PROCESS CONTROL;

ELECTROHYDRAULIC INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE; FILL-TO-PACK TRANSITION; HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR; NONLINEAR MODEL; PRESSURE TRANSIENT;

PLASTICS MOLDING MACHINES;

EID: 0037307401     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1540126     Document Type: Article

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