Incorporating manufacturability considerations during design of injection molded multi-material objects

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 207-231

  Banerjee, Ashis Gopal ^a   Li, Xuejun ^a   Fowler, Greg ^a   Gupta, Satyandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated manufacturability analysis; Generation of redesign suggestions; Multi material injection molding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; INJECTION MOLDING;

AUTOMATED MANUFACTURABILITY ANALYSIS; GENERATION OF REDESIGN SUGGESTIONS; MULTI-MATERIAL INJECTION MOLDING;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33847670117     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-007-0027-9     Document Type: Article

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