Optimization of injection molding process for tensile and wear properties of polypropylene components via taguchi and design of experiments method

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-105

  Lin, Yu Hsin ^a   Deng, Wei Jaw ^b   Huang, Cheng Hung ^c   Yang, Yung Kuang ^a  

^a MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c United Ship Design and Development Center Taipei   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DOE; Injection molding; Optimization; Taguchi; Tensile stress; Wear

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INJECTION MOLDING; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAGUCHI METHODS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ORTHOGONAL ARRAY TABLE; THREE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED PROGRESSIVE STROKES;

POLYPROPYLENES;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INJECTION MOLDING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYPROPYLENES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAGUCHI METHODS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

INJECTION MOLDING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMER PROPERTY; POLYPROPYLENE; PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TENSILE PROPERTY; WEAR;

EID: 37849010032     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602550701581027     Document Type: Article

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