Study of 'fingering' in water assisted injection molded composites

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1507-1517

  Liu, Shih Jung ^a,b   Lin, Shih Po ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A. Glass fibres; Water assisted injection molding

Indexed keywords

INJECTION MOLDING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYPROPYLENES;

WATER ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING; WATER CHANNEL GEOMETRY; WATER FINGERING; WATER PRESSURE;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 25644455333     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.02.011     Document Type: Article

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