Profile extrusion dies: The effect of machining inaccuracies on flow balance and its dependence on the design strategy used

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1152, Issue , 2009, Pages 270-276

  Nóbrega, João Miguel ^a   Pereira, Simão Pedro ^a   Carneiro, Olga Sousa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Flow balance; Machining inaccuracies; Profile extrusion dies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449884938     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3203277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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