Part shrinkage anomilies from stereolithography injection mould tooling

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 879-887

  Harris, R A ^a   Newlyn, H A ^a   Hague, R J M ^a   Dickens, P M ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Plastic injection moulding; Polymer shrinkage; Rapid tooling stereolithography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOGRAPHY; MACHINE TOOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICS MOLDING; SHRINKAGE;

STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 0037880654     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(03)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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