A preliminary study of sealing and heat transfer performance of conformal channels and cooling fins in laminated tooling

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 388-399

  Seungryeol, Yoo ^a   Walczyk, Daniel F ^b  

^a Korea University of Technology and Education   (South Korea)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZING; COOLING; LAMINATING; MACHINE TOOLS; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMOFORMING;

CONFORMAL CHANNELS; PROFILED EDGE LAMINAE (PEL); RAPID TOOLING (RT) METHODS; THERMAL CONTROL;

MACHINING;

EID: 34249871416     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2515522     Document Type: Article

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