Cavity air flow behavior during filling in microinjection molding

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Griffiths, C A ^a   Dimov, S S ^a   Scholz, S ^a   Tosello, G ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

microinjection molding; process monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; MOLDING; MOLDS; POLYMER MELTS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MONITORING;

MELT TEMPERATURE; MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING; MOLD TEMPERATURES; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PARAMETER SETTING; PROCESS DYNAMICS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; QUALITY FACTORS;

AIR;

EID: 79551483705     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4003339     Document Type: Article

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