ArticlePolymers2021
Micro Injection Molding of Thin Cavities Using Stereolithography for Mold Fabrication.
Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Replication Study of Molded Micro-Textured Samples Made of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene for Medical Applications.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Heat Transfer Analysis of 3D Printed Wax Injection Mold Used in Investment Casting.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Investigations on Temperatures of the Flat Insert Mold Cavity Using VCRHCS with CFD Simulation.Polymers · 2022Review
- Fabrication of Micro-Groove on the Surface of CFRP to Enhance the Connection Strength of Composite Part.Polymers · 2021Article
- Non-Contact Multiscale Analysis of a DPP 3D-Printed Injection Die for Investment Casting.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Interface Thermal Resistance Evolution between Carbide-Bonded Graphene Coating and Polymer in Rapid Molding for Microlens Array.Polymers · 2021Article
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Abstract
At the present time, there is a growing interest in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and their integration into current process chains. In particular, the implementation of AM for tool production in micro injection molding (µ-IM), a well-established process, could introduce many advantages. First of all, AM could avoid the need for the time-consuming and expensive fabrication of molds for small series of customized products. In this work, the feasibility, quality, and reliability of an AM/µ-IM process chain were evaluated by designing and fabricating mold inserts for µ-IM by stereolithography (SLA) technology; the mold inserts were characterized and tested experimentally. The selected geometry is composed of four thin cavities: This particular feature represents an actual challenge for both the SLA and µ-IM perspective due to the large surface-to-volume ratio of the cavity. Two different materials were used for the mold fabrication, showing sharply different performance in terms of endurance limit and cavity degradation. The obtained results confirm that the µ-IM process, exploiting an SLA fabricated mold insert, is feasible but requires great accuracy in material choice, mold design, fabrication, and assembly.
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