Investigation of wick debinding in metal injection molding: Numerical simulations by the random walk approach and experiments

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 495-515

  Lin, Tzer Long ^a   Hourng, Lih Wu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Local porosity distribution; Metal powder injection molding; Wick debinding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POWDER METALS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LOCAL POROSITY DISTRIBUTION; WICK DEBINDING;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 27844544304     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568552054969979     Document Type: Article

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