Study on the manufacture of a thermal management mould with three different materials using a direct metal tooling rapid tooling process

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-402

  Ahn, D G ^a   Kim, H W ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cooling characteristics; DMT process; Mould design; Productivity; Rapid tooling; Thermal management mould

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; COOLING CHANNELS; COOLING CHARACTERISTICS; COOLING TIME; CYCLE TIME; METAL TOOLING; MOULD DESIGN; RAPID TOOLING; RAPID TOOLING PROCESS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COOLING; DESIGN; DILATOMETERS; EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT; MOLDING; PRODUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TOOL STEEL;

MOLDS;

EID: 77950352112     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM1523     Document Type: Article

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