A comparison between stereolithography and aluminium injection moulding tooling

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 253-258

  Hopkinson, Neil ^a   Dickens, Phill ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injection moulding; Rapid prototyping; Rapid tooling; Stereolithography

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ELASTIC MODULI; GLASS TRANSITION; HEAT TRANSFER; INJECTION MOLDING; POLYPROPYLENES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALUMINUM INJECTION; RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP); RAPID TOOLING; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

LITHOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141439109     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540010373353     Document Type: Review

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