Manufacture of production injection mould tooling incorporating conformai cooling channels via indirect selective laser sintering

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

Volumn 215, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1323-1332

  Dalgarno, K W ^a   Stewart, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injection moulding; Polymer moulding; Rapid manufacturing; Rapid tooling; Selective laser sintering

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944258683     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954405011519042     Document Type: Article

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