Studies of rapid soft tooling with conformal cooling channels for plastic injection moulding

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 508-516

  Ferreira, J C ^a   Mateus, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Injection moulding; Rapid prototyping; Rapid tooling; Soft tooling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLASTIC MOLDS;

RAPID TOOLING;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 0141865577     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(03)00650-2     Document Type: Article

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