This study focuses on fabrication of a micro plastic part using custom made vertical injection molding machine. Electrical discharge machining (EDM) and micro mechanical machining was used to fabricate micro shape cavity on aluminum mold. The mold was embedded with Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) window to observe the behavior of plastic melt flow during injection. The custom made vertical injec...

Synchrotron X-ray lithographic molding of PMMA-Ti/Cu/Ti substrates has been developed and used in the electrodeposition of Ni microparts for prototype LIGA development at SNL, CA. Alternative molding processes that minimize xray beam line use and reduce processing time are of interest for the rapid fabrication of large quantities of microparts. The objective of this investigation is to examine,...

According to the character of straw pellet fuel cold molding technology, the compressing process was modeled by Finite Element Modeling (FEM) structure analysis tools. This indicated the variation laws between the stress and the strain, and the influence of the structure parameters of the die on the stress and the strain. It’s concluded from the work that when the length-to-diameter ratio of th...

Hybrid continuous-discontinuous sheet molding compound (SMC) composites are considered suitable candidates for structural automotive applications, due to their high mass-specific mechanical properties combined with geometrical flexibility and low costs. Since parts subject repeated loading, profound knowledge of fatigue behavior is required. This paper presents an experimental study on the bend...

Equal channel angular rolling (ECAR) process is one of the severe plastic deformation (SPD) methods that have been used to make ultra-fine grain (UFG) materials with improving the mechanical properties of samples. After performing the process at several paths, a large strain is applied to the material that can cause decreasing the grain size and improving the mechanical and physical properties ...

1 INTRODUCTION The technical requirements of precision injection molded components demand a heightened level of process performance, and with corresponding process monitoring and control technologies. To obtain the desired critical to quality attributes (CTQs) of the molded products, the injection molding process must be consciously designed such that the key process variables (KPVs) are observ...

copper–silver bimetallic strips were produced by cold roll welding process and were treated by diffusion annealing in the temperature range 250–800 ?c. the interface bonding strength was determined by bending and peeling tests, resistance, conductivity and micro hardness profiles were determined and microstructure in the interface region was observed by optical microscope. electrical resistance...

A series of lanthanide oxide microspheres and hollow spheres have been fabricated by thermolysis of corresponding lanthanide coordination compounds formed via bottom-up self-assembly.